Examples from the Web for essene
A brother of my late wife is an Essene, a kindly natured fool named Ithiel; you may have known him.
But I know not, the Essene answered, that any man be dying in the brook.
If a man be dying the Essene, by his rule, must succour him, Paul said.
Here a doubt struck him and he said, "But, lady, I understand that you are an Essene."
An Essene, but one that was seldom in the cenoby, more often to be met on the hills with his flocks.
1550s, member of a Jewish sect (first recorded 2c. B.C.E.), from Latin, from Greek Essenoi, of disputed etymology, perhaps from Hebrew tzenum "the modest ones," or Hebrew hashaim "the silent ones." Klein suggests Syriac hasen, plural absolute state of hase "pious."