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anchorite
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noun
a hermit; a hermit like person
1812Lord George Gordon ByronChilde Harold's PilgrimageThe laughing dames in whom he did delight, | Whose large blue eyes, fair locks, and snowy hands, | Might shake the saintship of an anchorite1855Maturin MurrayThe Sea WitchThere is true poetry in such a scene as this, beauty fit to move the heart of an anchorite.1919W. Somerset MaughamThe Moon and SixpenceYour appearance doesn't suggest the anchorite.

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