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Recent Examples of anchorite
Forest monks, anchorites, and hermits have made similar sacrifices in the name of God.
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Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2025
The original Anthology Film Archives, on Lafayette Street in Manhattan, was designed with high black partitions between each seat, so that viewers could wall themselves in to the screen like anchorites.
—Rachel Cusk, Harper's Magazine, 9 Sep. 2023
Why were anchorites such as Simeon Stylites — who lived atop a pillar — regularly consulted on all sorts of practical problems?
—Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 9 June 2023
Perhaps our lives now more closely resemble ancient anchorites, religious recluses who lived alone in rooms adjoining churches, said Cathleen Kaveny, a Catholic theologian at Boston College.
—Daniel Burke, CNN, 5 Apr. 2020
In other instances, anchorites became wise people to visit and from whom to seek council.
—Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2019
But there are certainly similarities between the anchorite and the handmaid.
—Annie Sutherland, Quartzy, 13 June 2019
Zachary Fine, New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2025
The original Anthology Film Archives, on Lafayette Street in Manhattan, was designed with high black partitions between each seat, so that viewers could wall themselves in to the screen like anchorites.
—Rachel Cusk, Harper's Magazine, 9 Sep. 2023
Why were anchorites such as Simeon Stylites — who lived atop a pillar — regularly consulted on all sorts of practical problems?
—Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 9 June 2023
Perhaps our lives now more closely resemble ancient anchorites, religious recluses who lived alone in rooms adjoining churches, said Cathleen Kaveny, a Catholic theologian at Boston College.
—Daniel Burke, CNN, 5 Apr. 2020
In other instances, anchorites became wise people to visit and from whom to seek council.
—Los Angeles Times, 12 Sep. 2019
But there are certainly similarities between the anchorite and the handmaid.
—Annie Sutherland, Quartzy, 13 June 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for anchorite
hermit
Noun
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In it, Day-Lewis plays a hermit in the North England woods who’s visited by an old friend (Sean Bean) sent to bring him back to his son.—
Randy McMullen,
Mercury News,
26 Mar. 2026
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In it, Day-Lewis plays a hermit in the North England woods who’s visited by an old friend (Sean Bean) sent to bring him back to his son.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
20 Mar. 2026
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“Anchorite.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/anchorite. Accessed 4 Apr. 2026.
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