The Collaborative International Dictionary
Monachism
Monachism \Mon"a*chism\, n. [Cf. F. monachisme.] The system and influences of a monastic life; monasticism.
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monachism
n. monasticism
Usage examples of "monachism".
Cassian, the great founder of Western Monachism, who had died about a century before the Vivarian monastery was founded.
Franciscan movement was originally, if not the protest of the Christian consciousness against monachism, at least the recognition of an ideal singularly higher than that of the clergy of that time.