单词 | anchorite |
释义 | anchorite —anchoritic /ang'keuh rit"ik/, adj. —anchoritically, adv. —anchoritism /ang"keuh ruy tiz'euhm/, n. /ang"keuh ruyt'/, n. a person who has retired to a solitary place for a life of religious seclusion; hermit. Also, anchoret. [1400-50; late ME anc(h)orite, conflation of ME ancre (OE ancra, ancer) and OF anacorite or ML anachorita < LGk anachoretés, equiv. to Gk anachore-, s. of anachoreîn to withdraw (ana- ANA- + choreîn to give way, v. deriv. of chôros space) + -tes agent suffix; OE forms < OIr *ancharae < LL anachoreta < LGk] |
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