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Meanings of monasticism in English

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монахи
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monacato
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Religious way of life.

        монахи
        Usage of monasticism in English
        1
        Fifty years ago, scholarly writer declared: Protestantism rejects monasticism on principle .
        The Irish Times
        2
        The movement known as monasticism is a way of structuring this impulse.
        Christianity: the first three thousand years
        3
        Great crises in the church have frequently produced new revivals of monasticism.
        The Age of the Reformation
        4
        And physiology-thedisrespect for the human frame is another relic of monasticism.
        South Wind
        5
        There was a sort of monasticism in this conduct in Walter's eyes.
        Amos Huntingdon
        6
        The spirit of monasticism was ever at war with true intellectual progress.
        A Short History of Monks and Monasteries
        7
        While favouring sacerdotal celibacy the council laid rather rigid restrictions on monasticism.
        The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
        8
        After 450 A.D., monasticism suffered an eclipse for over half a century.
        A Short History of Monks and Monasteries
        9
        The history of monasticism is one of alternate periods of decay and revival.
        The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
        10
        About 350 Saint Basil introduced monasticism into Asia Minor, where it flourished greatly.
        The History of Education / Educational Practice and Progress Con...
        11
        But between Eastern and Western monasticism there is at least one marked difference.
        Russia
        12
        It was a revival of monasticism, directed toward more modern ends.
        The History of Education / Educational Practice and Progress Con...
        13
        The true Christian, according to monasticism, is poor, celibate and obedient.
        A Short History of Monks and Monasteries
        14
        Quite correct; but is not monasticism by itself an outrage upon human nature?
        Luther Examined and Reexamined / A Review of Catholic Criticism ...
        15
        This, in after- ages, became a characteristic feature of Irish monasticism.
        The Irish Race in the Past and the Present
        16
        He re-created monasticism in England, making it stricter in discipline and purer in purpose.
        The Leading Facts of English History
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