Crossword-Solution: ANCHORESS 9 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 14

Nothing can be done immediately, or with violence, in this first mourning for the King; and I trust to make use of the time to disguise me, and escape to England, where I may keep my vow as anchoress, or as lay sister.

There he sat down and heard those who sat beside him talk of an old woman, an anchoress, by name Fatimeh, who still abode in her place without the city, serving [God], and came not down into the town but two days in the month, avouching her to be possessed of divine gifts galore.

Show me where I can go to be an anchoress, since they will not have me in a convent or anywhere,” and bitterly she wept.

Whitby being one of the oldest and grandest foundations was sure to be inaccessible to a high-born but unportioned girl, and Grisell in her sense of loneliness saw nothing before her but to become an anchoress, that is to say, a female hermit, such as generally lived in strict seclusion under shelter of the Church.

The little cell had an altar where the anchoress frequently prayed, and through a window saw the elevation of the Host in the daily Mass.