Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
anchoress .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare An anchoress.
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- noun A
female anchorite ; ananchoress .
Etymologies
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anchorite + -ess
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Examples
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The holiness of an anchoritess was deemed to run over upon her maid, and
One Snowy Night Long ago at Oxford Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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I have just heard that Saint John's anchoritess died yesterday, and I think, if you would wish it, that I could get the anchorhold for you.
One Snowy Night Long ago at Oxford Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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