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11 letters word
17 points in Scrabble
21 points in WWF

Definitions for MONASTICISM in dictionary:

NOUN:

the monastic system or mode of life, also MONACHISM
The monastic life, system, or condition.
asceticism as a form of religious life; usually conducted in a community under a common rule and characterized by celibacy and poverty and obedience
the monastic system or mode of life
the monastic system, condition, or mode of life.
a religious way of living that's characterized by self-discipline and isolation.

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

of or relating to monasteries or to monks or nuns

Words related to MONASTICISM

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Words that contain MONASTICISM

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How to use MONASTICISM in a sentence

That is the soul of monasticism, even as reformed by Harding, Alberic, and Bernard in the twelfth century, less human than in the tenth century, yet more intellectual.
But monasticism, in any of its forms, ceased to have a salutary influence on society when the darkness of the Middle Ages was dispersed.
No one man represents church architecture any more appropriately than any one man represents the Feudal system, or Monasticism, or the Crusades, or the French Revolution.
If Paganism glorified the body, monasticism despised it.
Moreover, monasticism encouraged whatever it thought would make the soul triumphant over the body, almost independent of it.
When monasticism rose to its height, after the Norman Conquest, a priory of Canons of St.
Monasticism no less than the papacy was of the very essence of the Church of the Middle Ages.
The voluptuous passion of his accustomed style is exchanged for the mystic raptures of monasticism.
Rarely has Massenet written anything more delightful than this exquisite song, so fresh in its artful simplicity, so fragrant with the charm of mediaeval monasticism.
Brahmanic ritual and Buddhist monasticism demand the dedication of a life.

Their rule of life may have been a faint reflex of Indian monasticism.
Not only was monasticism adopted by Christianity but many practices common to Indian and to Christian worship obtained the approval of the Church at about the same time.
Protestants regard monasticism largely as a perversion of the laws of nature and of Christian morals.
Monasticism is a pagan shoot grafted on a Christian tree.
With excellent discrimination Mosheim has traced the origin of monasticism to the early Christian fathers.
It is said he extended the rigors of monasticism beyond the bounds of reasonableness.
In our remarks on monasticism in a previous chapter we alluded to the Roman teaching concerning the Treasure of the Merits of the Saints, or the Treasure of the Church.
From the beginning of the tenth century to the beginning of the thirteenth was the Golden Age of monasticism.
Basil, had really introduced a new force into Christendom, and thereby became the undoubted father of Western monasticism.
Now this monasticism had for its primary intention the contemplation of God.
Eastern and Western monasticism seemed to teach the same lesson, that private property was not in any sense a sacred thing.
And when again I reflected upon the frightful discomforts and straits of monasticism I said, How trifling it is all in comparison with eternal peace.
A large Church reformation and the noblest period of monasticism occurred in his day, and received deep marks of his genius.
Western monasticism rent from the world the most powerful minds, and having trained them by its stern discipline, sent them back to rule the world.
Monasticism became possessed of the papal chair in the person of Gregory the Great.
Monasticism, so often misrepresented, attains its true meaning in the light of this conception.
For the works of Calderon bear most distinctly the impress of the poetry of the Middle Ages, particularly of the two principal epochs, knight-errantry and monasticism.
Ever since the Oriental practice of monasticism spread into the West, Christendom has seen a continual series of endeavours towards better and purer ideals of human life.

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