Relating to or characteristic of anchorites or their lifestyle of religious seclusion and solitary contemplation.
From anchorite + -ic (adjectival suffix). Formed in English to describe the practices, philosophy, and way of life associated with anchoritic traditions.
The anchoritic lifestyle represents one of humanity's most extreme attempts to achieve spiritual enlightenment through isolation—essentially unplugging from all society hundreds of years before the modern concept of 'detox.'
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