Sentence example with the word 'monasticism'

monasticism

abstinence, asceticism, bachelorhood, celibacy, fasting, maceration, mendicantism, monachism, puritanism, self-mortification, singleness, virgin state

Definition n. asceticism as a form of religious life

Last update: November 2, 2015


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Although thoroughly devoted to the ideals of monasticism, he discharged his episcopal duties with remarkable zeal and fidelity.   [Please select]

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Weingarten on the origin of monasticism, in which I still study the early centuries of Christianity, especially in Egypt.   [Please select]

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Monasticism and the papacy were strongly allied; one supported the other.   [Please select]

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The genius of monasticism, ancient and modern, is the propitiation of the Divinity who seeks to punish rather than to forgive.   [Please select]

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The church is wedded to monasticism; one supports the other, and both make a unity exceedingly efficient in the Middle Ages.   [Please select]

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One of the central figures in the story of the development of monasticism in Europe is Saint Benedict, who lived between 480 and 544.   [Please select]

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To his influence is due the imposition of the Benedictine rule upon nearly the whole of Latin monasticism.   [Please select]

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Tibet was more and more closely linked with China, and became the great home of Buddhism and Buddhist monasticism.   [Please select]

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The great leader of Arianism had passed away when Augustine dictated to the Christian world from the little town of Hippo, and Jerome transplanted the monasticism of the East into the West.   [Please select]

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