Anchoress

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A woman who has retired into seclusion for religious reasons.
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  • n. A female anchorite. A woman who chooses to withdraw from the world to live a solitary life of prayer and contemplation.
  • n. an anchorwoman
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A female anchoret.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A female anchoret.
    • Word Usage
    "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."
     
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