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cenobite +‎ -ism

Noun edit

cenobitism (uncountable)

  1. The state of being a cenobite; the belief or practice of a cenobite.
    • 1837, Alphonse de Lamartine, translated by Robert Huish, Travels in the Holy Land:
      The baides in which the early christians took refuge in the ages of cenobitism or of persecution

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Romanian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from French cénobitisme.

Noun edit

cenobitism n (uncountable)

  1. cenobitism

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