anchress

English

Alternative forms

• anchoress

Noun

anchress (plural anchresses)

1. (obsolete) An anchoress.
   • 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XI, ix:

     And hermits good and anchresses that dwell / Mew'd up in walls, and mumble on their beads.

Anagrams

• Schaners, archness