anchoret

anchoret (plural anchorets)

1. Alternative spelling of anchorite
   • 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe:

     "... or if they preferred spending a penitential evening, they might turn down yonder wild glade, which would bring them to the hermitage of Copmanhurst, where a pious anchoret would make them sharers for the night of the shelter of his roof and the benefit of his prayers."

• orchanet