Word Meanings - ANCHORETANCHORITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who renounces the world and secludes himself, usually for religious reasons; a hermit; a recluse. [Written by some authors anachoret.] Our Savior himself . . . did not choose an anchorite's or a monastic life, but a social and affable way of conversing with mortals. Boyle.

• Worldliness
  The quality of being worldly; a predominant passion for obtaining the good things of this life; covetousness; addictedness to gain and temporal enjoyments; worldly-mindedness.
• Conversancy
  Conversance
• Reclusely
  In a recluse or solitary manner.
• Recluseness
  Quality or state of being recluse.
• Worldling
  A person whose soul is set upon gaining temporal possessions; one devoted to this world and its enjoyments.
• Conversant
  Having frequent or customary intercourse; familiary associated; intimately acquainted.
• Conversible
  Capable of being converted or reversed.
• Religious
  Of or pertaining to religion; concerned with religion; teaching, or setting forth, religion; set apart to religion; as, a religious society; a religious sect; a religious place; religious subjects, books, teachers, houses, wars.
• Conversantly
  In a familiar manner.
• Conversion
  The act of turning or changing from one state or condition to another, or the state of being changed; transmutation; change.
• Religiously
  In a religious manner.
• Worldly-minded
  Devoted to worldly interests; mindful of the affairs of the present life, and forgetful of those of the future; loving and pursuing this world's goods, to the exclusion of piety and attention to spiritual concerns.
• Affableness
  Affability.
• Conversation
  General course of conduct; behavior.
• Conversive
  Capable of being converted or changed.
• Religiousness
  The quality of being religious.
• World-wide
  Extended throughout the world; as, world-wide fame.

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