Anchorite used in a sentence

Anchorite in a sentence as a noun

Thoreau spent a year in the woods, but he was not an anchorite by any stretch of the imagination.

For what it's worth, anchorites would wall themselves into a small room -- the folks who lived atop a pillar were called stylites.

Is this supposed to be signs of a conspiracy or something?I remember my dad getting a visit from US anchorites after they found he had contact with Jim Jones via ham radio.