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anchoritic

a. Of or pertaining to an anchorite

WordNet
anchoritic

adj. characterized by ascetic solitude; "the eremitic element in the life of a religious colony"; "his hermitic existence" [syn: eremitic, eremitical, hermitic, hermitical]

Usage examples of "anchoritic".

Besides, there were very holy, anchoritic religious sects and cliff-dwelling tribes living in the foothills and in some of the higher caves.