Noun:

ਭਿਕਸ਼ੂ,

anchorite's Usage Examples:

Having provided the travellers with refreshment, the anchorite, as soon as the Saracen slept, conducted his companion to a chapel, where he witnessed a procession, and was recognised by the Lady Edith, to whom he had devoted his heart and sword.

particularly severe form of asceticism within Christianity is that of anchorites, who typically allowed themselves to be immured, and subsisting on minimal.

Dharmabhrit (Sanskrit dharmabhṛt) is one of the anchorites who accompanied Rama from Sutīkṣṇa"s hermitage on his journey through the Dandaka forest.

Of these a few of note are: Jiat Kunda (well which, according to legends, has life giving power), Mankalir Dhap (place consecrated to Mankali), Parasuramer Basgriha (palace of a king named Parasuram), Bairagir Bhita (palace of a female anchorite), Khodar Pathar Bhita (place of stone bestowed by God), and Munir Ghon (a bastion).

(Coptic: Ⲁⲃⲃⲁ Ⲡⲁⲫⲛⲟⲩϯ), also known as Paphnutius the Hermit, was an Egyptian anchorite of the fourth century.

She then appears as amma Syncletica, an anchorite to whom are attributed twenty-eight sayings in the Apophthegmata Patrum.

There were many granite dwellings on Mount Serbal which were inhabited by anchorites in early Christian times, and there are traces of a fourth-century monastery.

anchorite who never completely turns his back on this world, the angelic sybarite who never quite quits his conversation with God.

An anchoret (or anchorite) is someone who retires from ordinary.

is also the earliest surviving work written by an English anchorite or anchoress.

Arabic: سائح‎ traveller, wanderer, itinerant) are Coptic Christian anchorites in Egypt.

There have been Christian references to anchorites who have immured themselves seeking a life of prayer and meditation.

Christian monastery is called cenobitic, as opposed to the anchoretic (or anchoritic) life of an anchorite and the eremitic life of a hermit.

Synonyms:

hermit, eremite,

Antonyms:

religious, coenobite, cenobite,