monachism
English edit
Etymology edit
From Late Latin monachus (“monk”) + -ism.
Noun edit
monachism (countable and uncountable, plural monachisms)
- Monasticism. [from 16th c.]
- 1791, Joseph Priestley, Letters to Burke, section VI:
- That wealth and splendour have not the charms that you ascribe to them with the bulk of mankind, is evident even from the history of Monachism, one of the corruptions of christianity.
Quotations edit
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:monachism.