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Definition of Monachisms
1. monachism [n] - See also: monachism
Lexicographical Neighbors of Monachisms
Literary usage of Monachisms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Diary of a Pedestrian in Cashmere and Thibet by William Henry Knight (1863)
"... sorrows of successive birth, to seek the destruction of the moral cause of
continued existence, that is, the cleaving to * Hardy's " Eastern monachisms. ..."
2. The Monthly Christian Spectator. 1851-1859 (1858)
"... Mathew of Westminster, and many others of obscurer note, with all their
monachisms, is a penance to think. Yet these are our only Registers, ..."
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