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How to use anchoress in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word anchoress? Here are some examples.

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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.
Among these was Margaret Kirkeby who became an anchoress in his neighbourhood and to whom a number of his major English works are addressed.
What is it about a fourteenth-century English anchoress that could be so appealing to people living at the beginning of the second millennium?
Two children dealing with their mother's disappearance encounter an anchoress who reveals the truth of their family's past.
Sarah's enclosed life is more social than one might expect of a medieval anchoress.
A local anchoress named ani Nawang Pema had a different plan.
Becoming an anchoress may have served as a way to quarantine her from the rest of the population.
Although Julian's views were not typical, the authorities might not have challenged her theology because of her status as an anchoress.
Julian lived as an anchoress, a type of religious hermit, and was likely bricked up inside a small stone cell during her 40-odd years of monastic life.
Sarah is an anchoress, a holy woman maintained by the lord of the manor in a small stone hermitage attached to the village church, where she spends her days and nights in prayer for her community.
Mr. Thompson reportedly booted executives off a cross-continental Citigroup flight to be alone with the impeccably brunette anchoress.
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.
Examples from Classical Literature
In 1453, an anchoress named Matilda supplied the place of Isabella, who we may suppose had long since gone to her reward.
An anchoress must not become a schoolmistress, nor turn her anchoress-house into a school for children.
The Lady Julian, who was the anchoress in 1393, is said to have had two servants to attend her in her old age.
I'll not go back to my anchoress lodge in the north till I see what works out of them!
An anchoress must not become a school-mistress, nor turn her house into a school for children.
For a case of doubt in an anchoress, which, however ended well, see ib.
Saxton's Caritas, which premiered in 1991, is based on accounts of a 13th century anchoress, but is up-to-date in its tonalities and techniques.
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