What's the difference between anachoret and anchoret?

Anachoret


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Anachoretical

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The word was conveyed to us by another monk of the egyptian deserts, Jean Cassien, with a change of meaning which made it very difficult to distinguish from sadness: his audience being very different from his predecessor's, as he wrote for Latins, little inclined to anachoretic life but among which developed the first great coenobitic institutions of the Occident.

Anchoret


Definition:

  • (n.) Alt. of Anchorite

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