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anchorite
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anchorite
a person who lives in seclusion, esp a religious recluse; hermit

anchorite [′aŋ·kə‚rīt]
(petrology)
A variety of diorite having nodules of mafic minerals and veins of felsic minerals.


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If Jesus cannot be properly imaged by a woman, someone neglected to tell English mystic and anchoress Julian of Norwich, who in the 14th century called Jesus "our Mother in kind, in our substantial making--in whom we are grounded and rooted; and he is our Mother of mercy, in taking our sensuality.
Thomas Bilney's martyrology records his parting gift of Tyndale's New Testament and The Obedience of a Christian Man as he set forth to die at the heretic's stake at Lollards' Pit in Norwich: "And so setting forward on his journey toward the celestial Jerusalem, he departed from thence to the anchoress in Norwich, and there gave her a New Testament in Tyndale's translation, and the obedience of a Christian man.
The 14th-century anchoress Julian of Norwich saw the horror of sin but in the end heard God's word that "all will be well.
 
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