(obsolete) An anchorite or anchoress. Anchor (slang) The brake of a vehicle. Anchor (soccer) A defensive player, especially one who counters the opposition's best offensive player. Anchor (climbing) A device for attaching a climber at the top of a climb, such as a chain or ring or a...
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The synoptic pessimism of des Esseintes appeared to many as a stopping place or as a refuge, and the agonizing future of that anchorite of analysis excited the emulation of a large group of dreamers...” “En Rade does not appear to be a work fated to modify the destiny of that ...
at Wadi al-Jarf, and it’s even more obscure. Among the only landmarks in the vicinity is the Monastery of Saint Paul the Anchorite, a Coptic Orthodox outpost founded in the fifth century near the cave, which had been inhabited by their hermitic patron saint. The ...
THE ANCHORITE Julian of Norwich She lived through the worst century in human history: the Black Death, famine, war, death and despair. So it was all the more surprising when Julian of Norwich rose from her deathbed saying she’d received a vision from God: All shall be well. How could...