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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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At the same time, she becomes threatened by a minor scandal involving her dopey husband (Jack Lowden), all while dealing with her dysfunctional family, including the serial-cheater father (Woody Harrelson) who reenters her life and a brother (Spike Fearn) who has become something of a hermit.—
Esther Zuckerman,
Time,
12 Dec. 2025
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On Monday morning, well-wishers, many wearing rain-coats, lined the roads behind a metal railing under drizzly skies as his convoy made its way through the winding roads near Beirut to the mountain-top tomb of a 19th century hermit now recognized as Saint Charbel Makhlouf.—
NPR,
NPR,
1 Dec. 2025
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“Anchorite.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/anchorite. Accessed 17 Jan. 2026.
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