arch. [f. ANCHORITE + -ESS.] A rare fem. of ANCHORITE; = ANCHORESS.
1655. Fuller, Ch. Hist., II. 96. Pega his sister, an Anchoritesse, led a solitary life, not far from him.
1872. E. Cutts, Scenes Mid. Ages, 131. An Anchoritess in the hermitage of St. Brendon, in Bristol.
