Cistercianism
English
editEtymology
editFrom Cistercian + -ism.
Noun
editCistercianism (uncountable)
- The beliefs and practices of the Cistercian monastic order.
- 1918, Edmund Bishop, Liturgica Historica, page 229:
- […] maximism of the Cluniacs on the one hand and the minimism of puritanic Cistercianism on the other.