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ANCHORITIC

Dictionary entry overview: What does anchoritic mean?

• ANCHORITIC (adjective)
The adjective ANCHORITIC has 1 sense:

1. characterized by ascetic solitude

Familiarity information: ANCHORITIC used as an adjective is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• ANCHORITIC (adjective)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Characterized by ascetic solitude

Synonyms:

anchoritic; hermitic; hermitical; eremitic; eremitical

Context examples:

the eremitic element in the life of a religious colony / his hermitic existence

Similar:

unworldly (not concerned with the temporal world or swayed by mundane considerations)

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