Crossword-Solution: ANCHORITE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Anchorite | n. | One who renounces the world and secludes himself, usually for religious reasons; a hermit; a recluse. |
| Anchorite | n. | Same as Anchoret. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| ANCHORITE | anagram | ANTECHOIR, REACHINTO |
We have 9 clues for the answer “ANCHORITE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Religious recluse | 5 answers |
| Loner | 11 answers |
| Recluse | 12 answers |
| solitary person | 13 answers |
| Dervish | 14 answers |
| Hermit | 16 answers |
| unsociable person | 37 answers |
| ascetic | 45 answers |
| Solitary | 76 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ANCHORITE (5)
The anchorite, not caring again to expose his door to a similar shock, now called out aloud, “Patience, patience—spare thy strength, good traveller, and I will presently undo the door, though, it may be, my doing so will be little to thy pleasure.” The door accordingly was opened; and the hermit, a large, strong-built man, in his sackcloth gown and hood, girt with a rope of rushes, stood before the knight.
Life isn’t long enough for love and art.” “Your appearance doesn’t suggest the anchorite.” “All that business fills me with disgust.” “Human nature is a nuisance, isn’t it?” I said.
The harlot and the anchorite, The martyr and the rake, Deftly He fashions each aright, Its vital part to take.
Formerly, when he lived from hand to mouth--to use his own expression--he indulged in cigars and in absinthe; but now he contented himself with the fare of an anchorite, drank nothing but water, and only smoked when some one gave him a cigar.
This plain anchorite had been one of those whom sorrow made too lonely to brave the sight of men, too timid to front the simple world she knew, yet valiant enough to live alone with her poor insistent human nature and the calms and passions of the sea and sky.
Quotes with ANCHORITE (3)
The priest therefore saw what the anchorite could not. That God needs no witness. Neither to himself nor against. The truth is rather that if there were no God then there could be no witness for there could be no identity to the world but only each man's opinion of it. The priest saw that there is no man who is elect because there is no man who is not. To God every man is a heretic.
An anchorite’s hermitage is called an anchor-hold; some anchor-holds were simple sheds clamped to the side of a church like a barnacle to a rock. I think of this house clamped to the side of Tinker Creek as an anchor-hold. It holds me at anchor to the rock bottom of the creek itself and keeps me steadied in the current, as a sea anchor does, facing the stream of light pouring down. It’s a good place to live; there’s a lot to think about. The creeks are an active mystery, fres…
If a man exists who is immune to force, even if he's the most blameless anchorite living on top of a column in the middle of the desert, he is beyond government, beyond authority, and cannot be controlled; and that would be intolerable.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, WSJ.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1992–2015).