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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 An·ach·o·ret n. An·ach·o·ret·ic·al a. See Anchoret, Anchoretic. [Obs.]
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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 An·cho·ret An·cho·rite, n.  One who renounces the world and secludes himself, usually for religious reasons; a hermit; a recluse. [Written by some authors anachoret.]
    Our Savior himself . . . did not choose an anchorite's or a monastic life, but a social and affable way of conversing with mortals.   --Boyle.
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