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Definition of Monasticism
1. Noun. Asceticism as a form of religious life; usually conducted in a community under a common rule and characterized by celibacy and poverty and obedience.
Definition of Monasticism
1. n. The monastic life, system, or condition.
Definition of Monasticism
1. Noun. the religious practice of renouncing all worldly pursuits in order to fully devote one's life to spiritual work ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Monasticism
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Monasticism
Literary usage of Monasticism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text-Book in the History of Education by Paul Monroe (1905)
"The study of monasticism is the study not of a minor government or of a side eddy
within the Christian Church, but of Christianity itself, for Christianity ..."
2. A Text-book in the History of Education by Paul Monroe (1905)
"EDUCATION AS A MORAL DISCIPLINE SCOPE OF monasticism AND IMPORTANCE OF MONASTIC
EDUCATION. — monasticism and monastic education are topics so large that ..."
3. The Classical Heritage of the Middle Ages by Henry Osborn Taylor (1901)
"Western monasticism The monasticism of the West bears the relation to Eastern
monasticism which so much that is Latin bears to what is Eastern or Hellenic, ..."
4. The Classical Heritage of the Middle Ages by Henry Osborn Taylor (1901)
"No definite fact or single principle distinguishes Western from Eastern monasticism.
monasticism brought from the East its original moods and aims. ..."
5. The Rise of the Mediaeval Church and Its Influence on the Civilisation of by Alexander Clarence Flick (1909)
"Evolution of Christian monasticism. V.—Spread of group monasticism from the East to
... monasticism, the story of which is one of the strangest problems in ..."
6. Church History by Johann Heinrich Kurtz (1889)
"Constantini reaching down to AD 337, never makes any mention of monasticism, we
cannot with like probability infer a continuance of such ignorance down to ..."
7. General History of the Christian Religion and Church by August Neander (1854)
"monasticism, on the' contrary, was at variance with the pure spirit of ...
But though monasticism was not a form of life that sprang originally and purely ..."
8. The English Church from Its Foundation to the Norman Conquest (597-1066) by William Hunt (1899)
"CHAPTER X EARLY monasticism As the English owed their Christianity almost wholly,
if not wholly, to the preaching of monks, as their Church was monastic ..."
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