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anchorite

/ang-kuh-rahyt/US // ˈæŋ kəˌraɪt //UK // (ˈæŋkəˌraɪt) //

抛锚者,锚定者,锚泊者,碇泊者

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who has retired to a solitary place for a life of religious seclusion; hermit.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • His philosophy had   made him neither an ascetic nor an anchorite.

  • A description of this anchorite of the rocks will be given in a later chapter.

  • There rushed over him a horror that he could have succumbed so easily to the temptation that befalls every anchorite.

  • You live the life of an anchorite here, never coming to the city, and I remain in retirement, scarcely ever going from the city.

  • The solitary anchorite was soon supplanted by the cœnobitic establishment, the monastery.