Meanings of monachism in English

Asceticism and the abuse of monachism enervated the English.

The subsequent history of Greek monachism has little interest.

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

The original poverty and social insignificance of monachism passed away, and the institution became the most powerful organization in Europe.

They each professed to restore monachism to what it had been at first; to realize the unnatural and impossible ideal.

Since that time monachism has been a power among the people and not without its influence on the course of events.

Eastern monachism arose about 300; the Church of Armenia was founded about the same year; and the Church of Georgia or Iberia in 340.

Monachism recognized what feudalism did not,-theclaims of man as man.

Monachism, Feudalism, with a real King Plantagenet, with real Abbots Samson, and their other living realities, how blessed!-

Par J. Barthélemy Saint-Hilaire.-EasternMonachism.

33 Quarterly Review, July, 1819: article on Monachism.

36 For these quotations, and others similar, see Hardy's valuable work, "Eastern Monachism," chap.

Into this disorder came the great and holy Benedict, the "learnedly ignorant, the wisely unlearned," the true organiser of Western Monachism.