more searches
10 wordies list

anchorite

(n): one retired from society for religious reasons
( more... )
all tags for this word (hide)
Leave a comment, citation, or private note
1 minute ago chained_bear said:

"When Henry David Thoreau escaped Concord and retired to Walden Pond to lead by example and live as an anchorite in the woods, demanding that people start their lives anew, he was not only passing judgement on the society of Concord, he was consciously enacting a peculiarly American story."
—James Campbell, The Final Frontiersman (New York and London: Atria Books, 2004), 152

Register or login to leave a comment.
first listed by:
hermitosis (31 words)
appears in these lists: