anachoretic
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "Both the anachoretic and the missionary spirit were strong in the family of Penda; the former chiefly among the women, the latter among the men of the house: nearly all his children and grandchildren died in the odour of sanctity."
- "No longer purely anachoretic or solitary, it begins, like the insect on the flower, to simulate the colour of that new social life from which it draws its own."
- "Anachoretic behaviour is of two different kinds, permanent and temporary."
- "If a combination of micro-organisms is injected simultaneously, only one of the bacteria may be demonstrated in the anachoretic abscess."
- "Anachoresis, or anachoretic pulpitis, is, therefore, a pulpitis of systemic origin."
- "Anachoretic pulpitis was suggested as a reality by the work of Robinson and Boling in the early 1940's."