Surely our foe, the warrior of hell, shoots, as I ween, more bolts at one anchoress than at seventy and seven secular ladies.
In 1453, an anchoress named Matilda supplied the place of Isabella, who we may suppose had long since gone to her reward.
The Lady Julian, who was the anchoress in 1393, is said to have had two servants to attend her in her old age.
And that the burgesses shall have the nomination and free election of the said anchoress for evermore from time to time when it happens to be void, as they have had without time of mind.
An anchoress must not become a school-mistress, nor turn her house into a school for children.
Her maiden may, however, teach any little girl concerning whom it might be doubted whether she should learn among boys, but an anchoress ought to give her thoughts to God only.
An anchoress must not become a schoolmistress, nor turn her anchoress-house into a school for children.
I do not inform, but give me leave to remind your lordship, that here sat solitary Sanctity, and here the hermit or the anchoress hoped that repose for their bones when dead they here enjoyed when living.
The bones thought to be those of the anchoress Rosia were but lately discovered in a cell at Royston, entire, fair, and undecayed, though they must have lain interred for several centuries; as is proved by Dr.
Let not the anchoress or her maiden play; it represents OE.
He was acquainted with Ailred of Rievaulx and with the treatise which Ailred wrote for his sister the anchoress (Morton, 368), of which he made extensive use.
Still less have we a right to look for such exactitude in the words of an anchoress who, if not wholly uneducated in our sense of the word, yet on her own confession "could no letter," i.
An anchoress that is a buyer and a seller selleth her soul to the chapman of hell.
Similarly the author of the Ancren Riwle warns his three anchoresses: An anchoressmust not become a schoolmistress, nor turn her anchoress-house into a school for children.
The anchoress had buried her face in her black mantle; her voice was husky as with tears.
Such was the legend attached to the little cell, and tradition went on to say that the anchoress broke her leg in crossing Whalley Nab, and limped ever afterwards; a just judgment on such a heinous offender.
The anchoress had buried her face in her black mantle.
Revelations of Divine Love recorded by Julian, Anchoress of Norwich, 1373.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "anchoress" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: anchorite; ascetic; hermit; invalid; outcast; pariah; recluse; solitary
