monachism

American  

[mon-uh-kiz-uhm] / ˈmɒn əˌkɪz əm /

noun

1. monasticism.

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Other Word Forms

• monachist adjective

Etymology

Origin of monachism

1570–80; < Late Latin monach ( us ) monk + -ism

Example Sentences

Monachism, II, pp. 6-7, who takes it from Sir H. Chauncey’s Hist. and Antiqs. of Hertfordshire, p.

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St. Hilarion instituted the first monks in Palestine, and he lived to see many thousands subject to his rule, and towards the close of his life to plant monachism in Cyprus.

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Suggested in the first instance by that desert life which was at once the earliest phase of monachism and one of the earliest sources of Christian mythology, strengthened by the symbolism which represented different virtues and vices under the forms of animals, and by the reminiscences of the rites and the superstitions of Paganism, the connection between men and animals became the keynote of an infinite variety of fantastic tales.

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The influence the first form of monachism has exercised upon the world, so far as it has been beneficial, has been chiefly through the imagination, which has been fascinated by its legends.

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But in the West, monachism assumed very different forms, and exercised far higher functions.

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