What's the difference between anchorite and loner?

Anchorite


Definition:

  • (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.

Loner


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) George, a loner who was said to have stalked and photographed hundreds of women, always maintained his innocence.
  • (2) There they are, drinking again.’” Harper is a loner – a suburban boy who went trainspotting with his dad; whose asthma stopped him playing ice hockey That scorn appears to have interrupted the clever student’s journey to the top of the class.
  • (3) Cho Seung-hui was revealed to be a troubled loner of South Korean descent who left behind a disturbing note of grievances against his university saying: "You caused me to do this."
  • (4) This study focuses on drug use, delinquency and lifestyle correlates of LONERS and SOCIALS.
  • (5) "If the great male detectives are archetypically loners, female detectives are doubly so.
  • (6) "One of the big problems with being a loner is that one does not get helpful reality checks from people who can challenge disordered thinking," Mr Depue wrote.
  • (7) He has a reputation for being something of a loner – often choosing to eat lunch alone in the canteen – and one former colleague described him as "a space cadet, he finds it difficult to emphathise with people not as bright or focused as him".
  • (8) He says that he's a loner, but constantly tells affectionate anecdotes about his mates.
  • (9) As the former Tory leader and arch-Eurosceptic Iain Duncan Smith described Douglas Carswell as a backbench loner, Redwood said the "so-called eight" had been plucked from the dining list of the Ukip donor Stuart Wheeler who used to support the Tories.
  • (10) Colin Stagg , a classic "loner", was wrongly accused of the murder of Rachel Nickell on Wimbledon Common in 1992, not least because he seemed like such a likely customer.
  • (11) The portrait of addiction is often one of tragedy – young lives cut short, or loners cut off from family and friends.
  • (12) But detectives admit they still do not know how “true loner” Mair, who had no social network, got hold of it.
  • (13) Police described the shooter as a “loner” and, bizarrely, pointed out out that he had shown an appreciation of the rapper Professor Griff, a founding member of the hip hop group Public Enemy, and an outspoken proponent of Afrocentrism, on Facebook.
  • (14) The police can't protect us, the government can't protect us, there are no more charismatic loners to protect us and the euro is defunct.
  • (15) As a child she was a shy, melancholic loner riddled with very early-onset teenage angst.
  • (16) He is a loner – a suburban boy who went trainspotting with his dad; whose asthma stopped him playing ice hockey but who knew more hockey stats than anyone else; who became an economist while his two brothers became accountants because, as he said, he did not have the personality to be an accountant.
  • (17) Tim Cushing made one of my favorite points of [last] week in his Tuesday post " Former NSA boss calls Snowden's supporters internet shut-ins; equates transparency activists with al-Qaida ", when he explained that "some of the most ardent defenders of our nation's surveillance programs" – much like proponents of overreaching cyber-legislation, like Sopa – have a habit of "belittling" their opponents as a loose confederation of basement-dwelling loners.
  • (18) In the classic Hollywood movie, whether the hero is cop, cowboy, private eye, rebel or drifter, there comes a moment when this solitary, self-sufficient loner faces the bad guys all by himself.
  • (19) Loners with pistols, strange men creeping into the royal bedroom at two in the morning: such events can be put down to obsessive and deranged personalities.
  • (20) 's sample of drug abusers, were more likely to be categorized as "loners," "rebels," and "pessimists" than was the general population sample.

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