anchoress - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • become: A holy virgin who left Ireland for Brittany and became an anchoress in a hermitage near Brieuc.
  • martyr: Two hermits and an anchoress martyred by the Danes at Thorney in England.

Preposition: in

  • apennines: She was carried to her brother's deathbed by angels and reposed as an anchoress in the Apennines.

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