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Monasticism   /mənˈæstəsˌɪzəm/   Listen
Monasticism

noun
1.
Asceticism as a form of religious life; usually conducted in a community under a common rule and characterized by celibacy and poverty and obedience.





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"Monasticism" Quotes from Famous Books



... of these Orders, greater or less, did not exhaust the impetus in favour of monasticism. Single houses and smaller Orders were founded during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, of which many attained a merely local importance. The common feature of the great Orders was that each of them ...
— The Church and the Empire - Being an Outline of the History of the Church - from A.D. 1003 to A.D. 1304 • D. J. Medley
... of that kind would take you still further away. My good friend, you are the man forever unintelligible to the coming generations. To ring bells because you love them, to give yourself over to the abandoned study of feudal art or monasticism would make you complete—take you clear out of Paris, out of the world, back into ...
— La-bas • J. K. Huysmans


Words linked to "Monasticism" :   austerity, eremitism, nonindulgence, asceticism


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