Wiktionary.org : Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License
Use "anchoret" in a sentence
"She is acting by me like an angel, and if she were to command me to turn anchoret, I know I ought to obey her. '"
"As he sate thus, with his dark eye turned towards the scowling and blackening heaven, a horseman rode rapidly up to him, and stopping, as if to let his horse breathe for an instant, made a sort of obeisance to the anchoret, with an air betwixt effrontery and embarrassment."
"Nothing would persuade me sooner that John was indeed an anchoret, than that which he himself saith, that he did not know Jesus, John 1: 31, whereas he was so very near akin to him."