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Definition of Monasticisms
1. monasticism [n] - See also: monasticism
Lexicographical Neighbors of Monasticisms
Literary usage of Monasticisms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Letters of Dr. John Brown by John Brown, Elizabeth T. McLaren (1907)
"... it is perhaps not quite the damnedest lie the Devil has yet invented, because
it does not wear so smooth a face as his monasticisms and ..."
2. Social Studies by Richard Heber Newton (1886)
"Were there time I might trace the working of this religio- socialistic tendency
through the after-periods of Christianity— in the monasticisms of the Middle ..."
3. The Ruin of Education in Ireland and the Irish Fanar by Frank Hugh O'Donnell (1902)
"The drill- elder monasticisms of the Church are Christian General.' ' Republics,
governed by election, ruled by chiefs soon to be succeeded by other chiefs. ..."
4. Art in Scotland: Its Origin and Progress by Robert Brydall (1889)
"... old French art is as much distinguishable by the works of Chardin and Fragonard
as by the heroics of David and the monasticisms of Philip de Champagne; ..."
5. The Christian doctrine of God by William Newton Clarke (1909)
"There have been organizations for promotion of religious life and service—churches,
societies, monasticisms, fraternities. There have been orders of ..."
6. The Ruin of Education in Ireland: And the Irish Fanar by Frank Hugh Macdonald O'Donnell, 1848- (1902)
"... The drill- elder monasticisms of the Church are Christian Republics, governed
by election, ruled by chiefs soon to be succeeded by other chiefs. ..."