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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024an•cho•rite (ang′kə rīt′),USA pronunciation n. - a person who has retired to a solitary place for a life of religious seclusion; hermit.
Also, anchoret. - Late Greek
- Late Latin anachōrēta
- Old Irish *ancharae
- Late Greek anachōrēté̄s, equivalent. to Greek anachōrē-, stem of anachōreîn to withdraw (ana- ana- + chōreîn to give way, verb, verbal derivative of chôros space) + -tēs agent suffix; Old English forms
- late Middle English anc(h)orite, conflation of Middle English ancre (Old English ancra, ancer) and Old French anacorite or Medieval Latin anachōrīta 1400–50
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