Anchorite vs Ascetic - What's the difference?
anchorite | ascetic |
One who lives in isolation or seclusion, especially for religious reasons.
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Of or relating to ascetics; characterized by rigorous self-denial or self-discipline; austere; abstinent; involving a withholding of physical pleasure.
* Sir Walter Scott
One who is devoted to the practice of self-denial, either through seclusion or stringent abstinence.
As nouns the difference between anchorite and ascetic
is that anchorite is one who lives in isolation or seclusion, especially for religious reasons while ascetic is one who is devoted to the practice of self-denial, either through seclusion or stringent abstinence.As an adjective ascetic is
of or relating to ascetics; characterized by rigorous self-denial or self-discipline; austere; abstinent; involving a withholding of physical pleasure.anchorite
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(hermit)Alternative forms
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(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=The preposterous altruism too!
- About 1150 some Palestinian anchorites adopted the eremitical rule of St. Basil, and spread throughout Palestine; when the Moslems captured the Holy Land these "Carmelites" migrated to Cyprus, Sicily, France, and England.
Synonyms
*eremite *hermit *recluseReferences
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A definition in Spanish
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*ascetic
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(wikipedia ascetic)Alternative forms
* ascetick (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- The stern ascetic rigor of the Temple discipline.
