(n.) One who renounces the world and secludes himself, usually for religious reasons; a hermit; a recluse.
(n.) Same as Anchoret.
Example Sentences:
(1) One early reader wondered: "How to describe a book that features a band of Atemporals pitted against a band of sinister, soul-devouring Anchorites, who stage an epic battle in a shrine in the Swiss Alps?"
(2) Perhaps there were other actors as beautiful as Peter O'Toole in his 60s pomp but surely no one had such mesmeric eyes – the eyes of a seducer, a visionary or an anchorite, a sinner or a saint.
Laura
Definition:
(n.) A number of hermitages or cells in the same neighborhood occupied by anchorites who were under the same superior.
Example Sentences:
(1) Laura Sandys, Conservative MP and part of the ministerial team at the Department of Energy and Climate Change (Decc), highlighted the problem of public opposition shale gas is likely to face: "Onshore wind is a walk in the park, by comparison."
(2) Dr Helen Pankhurst and Laura Pankhurst Care International UK • So half the world’s women work ( Gender pay gap ‘will not close for another 70 years’, 6 March).
(3) I cook, I save money, I do my own thing.’ Photograph: Antonio Olmos Laura: 'I couldn't live at home with my dad any longer.
(4) A State Department of Emergency Management spokeswoman, Laura Southard, said the storm had the potential to be a "historic ice event".
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Laura Cumming beside Velázquez’s Portrait of a Man at Apsley House, where John Snare would also have seen it.
(6) Unsurprisingly, Laura Bates turned to an anonymous talkboard to ask for help soon after she founded the Everyday Sexism Project 18 months ago.
(7) This underfunding was highlighted by Ellis Bragginton and Laura Piddock from Birmingham University, who found that of almost £14bn research funding for bacteriology in the UK from 2008 to 2013, just £95m (0.7%) was awarded for work on new antibiotics.
(8) Laura Kuenssberg (@ITVLauraK) Royal Mail says they believe CWU will vote to strike- result earliest on 3rd Oct, strike earliest on 10th - deal + union on collision course September 12, 2013 7.29am BST Five key points So how does the Royal Mail privatisation work?
(9) Grace Coddington, Dame Helen Mirren, Laura Mvula, and Karen Elson, in the pink duster coat that proved so popular for M&S.
(10) Álvaro “Tata” González recalls what Lugano told his team-mates in the dressing room before going out to face Venezuela in Puerto Ordaz, before that match that could have been the end of the line: “In these moments in which we are playing for so much, in this game which will decide so much, if they let me choose who to play alongside … If they let me choose from the best players in the world … If they let me choose from anyone to go out and fight right now … I don’t have any doubts: I choose you.” Ana Laura Lissardy is a Uruguayan-Italian journalist and author.
(11) This is what Laura Kuenssberg has put out on Twitter .
(12) Everyday Sexism by Laura Bates is published by Simon & Schuster inspring 2014.
(13) Cate Blanchett and Laura Linney both paid tribute to Rowlands, calling her a trailblazer and inspiration.
(14) A second former patient Laura from Evesham in Worcestershire told BBC Radio 5 how Savile would do "ward rounds" and take children to a private room he had.
(15) [see footnote] Laura Ashley, fashion The celebrated late designer moved to St Tropez at one point to avoid UK tax.
(16) Bono participated in the event and praised our policy ... Laura, Barbara, Jenna, and I consider him a friend.” Three years later, in preparations leading up to the G8 conference, the chancellor, Gordon Brown, was in discussion with Bono and Sir Bob Geldof .
(17) The plan is for Laura to play those two small tournaments late in February before she uses her protected ranking to get into Indian Wells,” Eisenbud said.
(18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘The past in all its mortal beauty’: Las Meninas, the 1656 Velazquez masterpiece that held Laura Cumming spellbound at the Prado in Madrid.
(19) Laura Minnett is a 'quality checker' with the charity, Choice Support.
(20) But I reckon Laura Tingle is dead right on the substantive challenge - the statement just shows the country can no longer coast.