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Eremitism

noun
1.
Monasticism characterized by solitude in which the social dimension of life is sacrificed to the primacy of religious experience.





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"Eremitism" Quotes from Famous Books



... plaiting of mats or making of baskets. So strong is the instinctive tendency of man to association, that even communities of madmen may organize. Hilarion is said to have been the first who established a monastic community. He went into the desert when he was only fifteen years old. Eremitism thus gave birth to Coenobitism, and the evils of solitude were removed. Yet still there remained rigorous anchorites who renounced their associated brethren as these had renounced the world, and the ...
— History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) - Revised Edition • John William Draper


Words linked to "Eremitism" :   monasticism


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