Noun:

துறவிமடக் கொள்கை,

monasticism's Usage Examples:

However, Edwy's brother Edgar admired and supported the reformed monasticism.

Greek monachism underwent no development or change for four centuries, except the vicissitudes inevitable in all things human, which in monasticism assume the form of alternations of relaxation and revival.

He was a generous patron of monasticism.

But Severus was no indiscriminating adherent of monasticism.

But they were 2 It has been suggestively said that Cynicism was to Stoicism what monasticism was to early Christianity.

The inner spirit and working of the older monasticism is well portrayed in F.

But climatic conditions and racial temperament rendered the Oriental manner of monasticism unattainable, as a rule, in the West.

The Danish inroads had told heavily upon it; the monasteries had been special points of attack, and though Alfred founded two or three monasteries and imported foreign monks, there was no general revival of monasticism under him.

The chief importance of the monastic rule and institute of St Basil lies in the fact that to this day his reconstruction of the monastic life is the basis of the monasticism of the Greek and Slavonic Churches, though the monks do not call themselves Basilians.

i: the view now common among scholars is there maintained, that these pre-Christian realizations of the monastic idea had little, and indeed no, influence on the rise and development of Christian monasticism.

The existence of monasticism made it possible at once to hold up a high moral standard before the world and to permit the ordinary Christian to be content with something lower.

Eugenius retained the stoic virtues of monasticism throughout his stormy career, and was deeply reverenced for his personal character.

Synonyms:

austerity, asceticism, eremitism, nonindulgence,

Antonyms:

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