Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Monasticism.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The principle of living in the manner of monks; the system or course of life pursued by monks and nuns; primarily, the practice of living alone in religious retirement from the world; religious seclusion; secondarily, the corporate life of religious communities under vows of poverty, celibacy, and obedience to a superior. See
monk . - noun A monastic characteristic or peculiarity; also, such characteristics collectively.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The system and influences of a monastic life; monasticism.
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- noun
monasticism
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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In a word monachism was still waiting for the man who should adapt it to Western needs and circumstances and give to it a special form distinct from that of the East.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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There was written the Rule whose influence was to spread over all Western monachism; there he received the visit of Totila in 542, the only date in his life of which we have certain evidence; there he died, and was buried in one tomb with his sister, St. Scholastica.
Pope Visits Important Benedictine Abbey of Montecassino 2009
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The ascetic tendencies went so far as to create a kind of begging monachism -- the _métragyrtes_.
The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism Franz Cumont
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After a few centuries a far more wholesome type of monachism supplanted the hermits; the anchorites of the Middle Ages retained the solitary life, but were very unlike the crazy savages of the Thebaid.
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Still more was this the case with men of Humanistic culture, whose temporary alliance with Luther had been dictated more by the interest they felt in the arts and letters threatened by the old monastic spirit, and by the open scandal caused by the outrageous abuses of the clergy and monachism, than by any sympathy with his religious principles and ideas.
Life of Luther Julius Koestlin
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But surely the crimes of popedom and the evils of monachism, that thing of dry bones and fabricated relics, are bad enough; and the protestant cause is sufficiently holy, that we may afford to be honest if we cannot to be generous.
Bibliomania in the Middle Ages Frederick Somner Merryweather
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Men set to work now in earnest to give effect to the new principles applied to monachism.
Life of Luther Julius Koestlin
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A proof that the pervading spirit of Italian monachism was Egyptian lies in the fact that when St. Benedict determined to forsake the world and become a monk, he adopted, almost as a matter of course, the life of a solitary in a cave.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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The authority of Charlemagne and of his son, Louis the Pious, did much, as we shall presently see, towards propagating the principles of the Father of western monachism.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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When we consider Augustine's great prestige, it is easy to understand why his writings should have so influenced the development of Western monachism.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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