anchorite in the Oxford Spanish Dictionary

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The writer accuses these of housing nunneries or anchorites, and questions whether the building is indeed being used solely as a church.
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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 or a rock.
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The chancel of the earlier building contained an anchorite's cell.
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One unusual and ancient feature of the church, which survived in a complete form until the 14th century, was an anchorite's cell.
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In the late 19th century the skeleton of an anchorite was discovered when a chamber was found beneath the castle's chapel.
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He wished to spend the rest of his life as an anchorite, withdrawn from the world, living in a cell adjacent to the church.
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He would later go on to found a third type of monastic institution, the skete, as a middle road between anchorites and cenobites.
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In her old age she becomes a nun and an anchorite.
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His penitential zeal rivalled that of the early anchorites, and, according to his spiritual director, he carried his baptismal innocence to the grave.
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But some anchorites freely moved between their cell and the adjoining church.
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