Usage of "cloistered life"

Russian

монахи

Portuguese

monacato

Spanish

monacato

Catalan

monacat

Religious way of life.

монахи

Synonyms

Examples for "monasticism"

Fifty years ago, scholarly writer declared: Protestantism rejects monasticism on principle . 
 The Irish Times 

The movement known as monasticism is a way of structuring this impulse. 
 Christianity: the first three thousand years 

Great crises in the church have frequently produced new revivals of monasticism. 
 The Age of the Reformation 

And physiology-thedisrespect for the human frame is another relic of monasticism. 
 South Wind 

There was a sort of monasticism in this conduct in Walter's eyes. 
 Amos Huntingdon 

Asceticism and the abuse of monachism enervated the English. 
 Lectures and Essays 

The subsequent history of Greek monachism has little interest. 
 A Short History of Monks and Monasteries 

Anarchism tends to become a kind of atheistic monachism and a religious, rather than an ethical or economico-social, doctrine. 
 Tragic Sense Of Life 

The original poverty and social insignificance of monachism passed away, and the institution became the most powerful organization in Europe. 
 Beacon Lights of History, Volume 3 part 1: The Middle Ages 

They each professed to restore monachism to what it had been at first; to realize the unnatural and impossible ideal. 
 The Roman and the Teuton / A Series of Lectures delivered before... 

Usage of cloistered life in English

These books had made the girl discontented with her cloistered life. 
 A Soldier of the Legion 

The old, cloistered life at Brockhurst, for good or evil, was broken up. 
 The History of Sir Richard Calmady: A Romance 

I crucified Christ daily in my cloistered life, and blasphemed God by my wrong faith. 
 Commentary on the Epistle to the Galatians 

How should I be, that am but a maid who has led a cloistered life. 
 The Sea-Hawk 

Modi contrasted his humble roots with the cloistered life of privilege of his dynastic rivals. 
 Reuters 

The interior of the Hermit's cell had recalled, so vividly, the austerities of the cloistered life. 
 The White Ladies of Worcester: A Romance of the Twelfth Century 

The Reverend Mother writes: 'Sister Mary Seraphine expressed herself as completely satisfied with the cloistered life. 
 The White Ladies of Worcester: A Romance of the Twelfth Century 

If a cloistered life has chastened thy roses, their tender bloom has only become more touching. 
 The Poor Gentleman 

After all, it is impossible to be always mourning, always complaining, always leading a cloistered life. 
 Frederick the Great and His Family: A Historical Novel 

He lived a somewhat cloistered life in the stable which had been made over into a garage. 
 Mistress Anne 

I returned to England not long after your betrothed had entered the cloistered life in the Whytstone Nunnery. 
 The White Ladies of Worcester: A Romance of the Twelfth Century 

Enough, perhaps, for the cloistered life. 
 The White Ladies of Worcester: A Romance of the Twelfth Century 

Audrey Valentine leading a cloistered life! 
 Dangerous Days 

She had encountered only a handful of men in her cloistered life and never one remotely like Virgil Nash. 
 Arcadia falls 

Decidedly, in spite of her gift for remembering prayers and litanies, the mere thought of a cloistered life repelled her. 
 The White Sister 

Would it be possible that he should understand, that eight years of cloistered life cannot be renounced in a day? 
 The White Ladies of Worcester: A Romance of the Twelfth Century 