anchress

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A form of anchoress — A female anchorite. A woman who chooses to withdraw from the world to live a solitary life of prayer and contemplation.

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Meanings

nounanchress (plural anchresses)

plural anchresses

  1. alternativeAlternative form of anchoress (“female anchorite”).

    And hermits good and anchresses that dwell / Mew'd up in walls, and mumble on their beads.

    1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XI, ix

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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Cite this entry
APA

anchress. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/anchress

MLA

“anchress.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/anchress. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “anchress,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/anchress.

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