anchress
English
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Noun
anchress (plural anchresses)
- (obsolete) An anchoress.
- 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XI, ix:
- And hermits good and anchresses that dwell / Mew'd up in walls, and mumble on their beads.
- 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XI, ix: