noun

• The state of living as a religious recluse.

  ‘as he longed for anchorism he went to Scetis, following a Cherub’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Antony had, in his mid-life, made a decision in favor of anchorism against the monastic and political involvement’
  • ‘Anchorism was slightly more popular among women than men in the twelfth century.’
  • ‘There are few men for whom pure anchorism is safe.’
  • ‘They introduce no monachism or anchorism; they eat and drink and are apparelled like other men, and use those recreations that other men do.’
  • ‘He lived very frugally in a small thatched cottage at Ickford in the greatest obscurity and anchorism.’

  Synonyms

  austerity, self-denial, abstinence, abstemiousness, non-indulgence, self-discipline, frugality, simplicity, rigour, strictness, severity