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Anchorets vs Anchoress - What's the difference?

anchorets | anchoress |

As nouns the difference between anchorets and anchoress

is that anchorets is while anchoress is a female anchorite a woman who chooses to withdraw from the world to live a solitary life of prayer and contemplation.

anchorets

English

Noun

(head)

    • Anagrams

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    anchoress

    English

    Alternative forms

    * anchoritess, anchress

    Noun

    (anchoresses)
  • A female anchorite. A woman who chooses to withdraw from the world to live a solitary life of prayer and contemplation.
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=2003 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Y?ko Wada , title=A Companion to Ancrene Wisse , chapter=A Genre of Ancrene Wisse citation , genre= , publisher=DS Brewer , isbn=9780859917629 , page=39 , passage=… and advises the anchoresses to take on the basic religious vows … }}
  • (informal) an anchorwoman
  • :* {{quote-web
    • , date= 2006-02-11 , year= , first=James , last=Poniewozik , author= , authorlink= , title=Live from Turin—Sorry, Torino—It's NBC , site=Time Magazine citation , archiveorg= , accessdate=2012-01-25 , passage=Williams was co-hosting in place of Katie Couric, a move some have speculated was meant to deprive the possible next anchoress of the CBS Evening News the prime time exposure. }}
  • :* {{quote-web
    • , date= 2007-04-16 , year= , first=Max , last=Abelson , author= , authorlink= , title=Sold! 'Money Honey,' Hubby Buy $6.5 M. East Side Townhouse , site=New York Observer citation , archiveorg= , accessdate=2012-01-25 , passage=Mr. Thompson reportedly booted executives off a cross-continental Citigroup flight to be alone with the impeccably brunette anchoress . }}