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How to use anchorites in a sentence

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

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Often individual anchorites were attached to a cenobium, where they might return for communal worship.
Soon there were great numbers of desert anchorites, living solitary lives of devotion to God and coming together for weekly prayer services.
It is difficult to say exactly when the life of the anchorites and cenobites took on a definite character of obligation toward God and the Church.
Some cave-dwelling anchorites, through rigorous discipline, reached the ecstasy of saints and were taken to heaven where they saw and heard things which human beings are not allowed to understand.
Many anchorites and anchoresses taught people from their cells.
Examples from Classical Literature
As early as the eighth century, culdee anchorites were accustomed to retire to Iceland from Scotland.
The probability is that it was built by some of those culdee anchorites of whom Dasent speaks as the first settlers of Iceland.
They are distrustful of anchorites, and do not believe that we come with gifts.
Neither are they grave monks nor anchorites nor pillared saints.
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