anchoress in English

noun
1
a female anchorite.
As a priest performed the ceremonies of the burial office, Julian took up residence as an anchoress in a small apartment attached to the church.

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1. They called themselves the Anchoress.

2. History and Etymology for Anchoress

3. Anchoress definition, a woman who is an anchorite

4. Anchoress (plural Anchoresses) A female anchorite

5. Anchorite or anchoret (female: anchoress; adj

6. Anchoritess Anchoritesses anchoritic anchoritically: Literary usage of Anchoress

7. What does Anchoritess mean? A female anchorite; an anchoress

8. Definition of Anchoress noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

9. The Anchoress is Welsh multi-instrumentalist Catherine Anne Davies

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11. Ancress ( plural Ancresses ) Obsolete form of anchoress (“female anchorite”).

12. Anchoress definition: a female anchorite Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples

13. By Julian’s day, the retirement of an Anchoress into …

14. Anchoress is the oldest living inmate of Arkham Asylum

15. Anchoress definition is - a woman who is an anchorite

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17. An Anchoress and later Abbess of Polesworth in Warwickshire in England

18. The Anchoress is a metahuman supercriminal introduced in the New 52

19. The Art Of Losing by The Anchoress, released 12 March 2021 1

20. An Anchoress was a woman vowed to chastity and stability of abode

21. The word Anchoress is a cognate of a Greek verb that means `to retire

22. What does Anchoress mean? A woman who has retired into seclusion for religious reasons

23. Welsh multi-instrumentalist and producer Catherine Anne Davies works under the moniker The Anchoress

24. The word “Anchoress” — most were women — comes from a Greek word, anachoreo, meaning “to withdraw or retire.” The most famous Anchoress may have been Julian of Norwich, who died in 1416

25. Times, Sunday Times (2012) The church where she was an Anchoress is south of the cathedral.

26. ‘What is it about a fourteenth-century English Anchoress that could be so appealing to people living at the beginning of the second millennium?’ Synonyms abstainer , recluse, hermit, solitary, anchorite, Anchoress, desert saint, celibate, puritan, nun, monk

27. ‘What is it about a fourteenth-century English Anchoress that could be so appealing to people living at the beginning of the second millennium?’ Synonyms abstainer , recluse, hermit, solitary, anchorite, Anchoress, desert saint, celibate, puritan, nun, monk

28. The life of the anchoress was hard but she did not necessarily give herself over to excessive penance.

29. An Anchoress was a woman who was walled into a cell to live a life of prayer and contemplation

30. The Anchoress is inspired by real-life medieval women who lived lives of devotion, locked away in village churches

31. The Anchoress; A Dog's Rescue; The Last Raid; Fishing Lesson; Nostalgia; Essexe World Events; Essexe World Events; Mother; The Riddler; The Prodigy; …

32. One of the Seven Sisters is designated as the coordinator and guide for the group and lovingly referred to as the Anchoress

33. Newbery, Linda RIDDLE ME THIS (1993) We also keep meeting a 13th-century Anchoress, walled away to atone for her sins

34. The anchoress would be interred in this room in an impressive if rather disturbing ceremony during a Mass for the Dead.

35. Intense, insistent and often inspired, the second album from The Anchoress shows her, on its cover, literally devouring pages and pages of books

36. The Anchoress is where a rather reclusive woman who talks too much deposits all the thoughts she can’t figure out what to do with, elsewhere

37. In the Middle Ages, the term “Anchoress” denoted someone who withdrew from secular society to lead an intensely prayer-oriented, ascetic, and Eucharist-focused life.

38. Enter the medieval world of Christine Carpenter, a visionary girl who is to become an Anchoress (walled-in recluse) so that she can "live in the Virgin's house forever." Based on actual letters that were written about such an Anchoress in 1325, the film follows Christine as she awakens to her own sensuality and explores her own female, earth-based spirituality

39. The Anchoress is actually the only daughter of the "Shame of Serault", the former Marquis of Serault.Thus, she is the great-aunt of the current Marquis of Serault.She describes herself as "the Shame's shame." The Anchoress is the bastard daughter of the Shame and an unknown Chantry sister from the Abbey of the Bans

40. First the mystical practice of the anchoresses: this is essentially a technique of radical self-isolation, but does not only consist solely of a hermit existence, of the complete withdrawal of a hermit into solitude. The anchoress’ hermitage was sometimes also attached to a church and furnished so that the anchoress could also take part in the mass.

41. In our own time, scholars have come to the village to study the legendary "Anchoress of Shere" to try to understand her drastic decision.

42. A s a drawn-to-the-dark teen, the Welsh singer-songwriter Catherine Anne Davies, AKA the Anchoress, subscribed to the notion that great art must be born of …

43. It’s been five years since The Anchoress (Catherine Anne Davies) has released a follow-up after her 2016 debut, Confessions of a Romance Novelist on the Kscope label

44. This is the story of Sarah who after witnessing the deaths of her mother and sister to the complications of childbirth has decided to become the Anchoress of the village church

45. 1 History 2 Powers and Abilities 2.1 Powers 2.2 Weaknesses 3 Related 3.1 Footnotes The unnamed woman who would become the Anchoress was born in Gotham City around the year 1898

46. The members of this last group were called Anchorites, because on entering the room, the anchorite (or the anchoress, for a woman) made a promise of stability, to remain anchored to that place

47. The members of this last group were called Anchorites, because on entering the room, the Anchorite (or the anchoress, for a woman) made a promise of stability, to remain anchored to that place

48. Like an ancient anchoress, she decided to live in a cell located near the church called after St Julian, in the city of Norwich — in her time an important urban centre not far from London.

49. An Anchorite (female: anchoress) from "one who has retired from the world", is someone who, for religious reasons, withdraws from secular society so as to be able to lead an intensely prayer-filled, ascetic life

50. The Anchoress of Shere - Ex Paul Moorecraft In 1329, Christine Carpenter, an actual personage who lived in the village of Shere in the Surrey woodlands, had herself walled up in a church cell to live out her remaining days in prayer and meditation