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Where does “anachoreet” come from?

anachoreet (Dutch) comes from French anachorète, from Ecclesiastical Latin anachōrēta.

anachoreet (Dutch): anchorite, hermit monk; any other hermit

Definitions

  1. anchorite, hermit monk; any other hermit

Ancestry of “anachoreet”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Frenchanachorèteanchorite
2Ecclesiastical Latinanachōrēta—
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