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anchoret or anchorite: see hermit .


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I. Or, the Anchorite Who Is Dying By Degrees
; Father Gravitational's Wig Flies Off According to his laws, and floats according to them, and joins a flock of seagulls, and summers with them, slaty-backed, and winters with them, glaucous-winged, according to his laws. Father Gravitational stares up, sees the burlap scalp breathe, and hides in Read more
BOOKS: THE ANCHORITE STUFF A Pelican in the Wilderness By Isabel Colegate HARPERCOLLINS pounds 16.99
; In the vastness of the desert there is space for everything but delusion. That great tabula rasa, stretching out for miles in both Egypt and Syria, can have offered no consolation, no buttress for wounded self- esteem, no ointment for a wounded heart. And these Abbas - and let it not be forgotten, Read more
Anchorites, Wombs and Tombs: Intersections of Gender and Enclosure in the Middle Ages.(Book review)
; Anchorites, Wombs and Tombs: Intersections of Gender and Enclosure in the Middle Ages, ed. Liz McAvoy and Mari Hughes-Edwards, Religion...interpretation, which allowed for a gendered deciphering of the physical and metaphysical space of the anchorhold and the anchorite's existential role within it' (p. 11). The ... Read more
The briefs.(Neighbor)
; ...first from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and the second from 5 to 7 p.m. For details, call (847) 742-2411 or visit www.gailborden.info. See hermit crabs at Elgin museum Elgin Public Museum, 225 Grand Blvd. in Lords Park, still has room in the morning and afternoon sessions... Read more
THE RULE OF ST. BENEDICT AND ENVISIONING JESUS
; In many ways the life of an anchorite is opposed to that of a monk; a monastery...on some form of community, and an anchorite necessarily follows a life of almost complete solitude. Although medieval anchorites had communication with outsiders... Read more
Wireless. (poem)
; Anchorite of insomnia, 3 A.M. exile thumbing a skyful Of shortwave radio Static, through unidentifiable Squiggles of blurted Morse, I nudge... Read more
A saint, a doll's head and lives spent entombed.(News)
; ...form of devotion for individuals called anchorites, who elected to seek spiritual enlightenment...which also serves as a museum. The anchorite had no visual contact with people and...altar and observe mass taking place. Anchorites were entombed for life with a ceremony... Read more
The parenthesis inserts itself into the transcripts of the Committee on Un-American Activities.(poem)
; Senator (I have never been with rubrics, nor am I among the indicteds' swart black books: I am the anchorite's punched lips. Small-lunged boys who duck in the old beds from dogs have lain low in me; rabbits, I think, have bolted here who... Read more
[ * According to the National Fire Protection Associ... ]
; ...in property damage. * Tired of the old nine-to-five? Try out being an anchoress or anchorite. No, you wouldn't have to work near ships. An anchoress or anchorite is a hermit -- female and male, in that order. * Bet you can't tell us what "laser... Read more
(book reviews)
; ...collection of three different lives about one of the most well-known, controversial, and questionable ascetics of all times, the anchorite Simeon the Stylite (+459). The first was written by Theodoret of Cyrrhus in 444, while Simeon was still alive; the next by... Read more

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anchorite, anchoret religious recluse occupying a cell. XV. — medL. an(a)chorīta , -rēta — ecclGr. anakhōrēt... Read more
Julian of Norwich
...translations of the longer version, under the title Revelations of Divine Love, are by Roger Hudleston (1927), James Walsh (1961), Anchoret Juliana (1966), and Clifton Wolters (1966). Important studies of Julian are Paul Molinari, Julian of Norwich: The Teaching... Read more

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