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From Late Latin monachus (monk) +‎ -ism.

Noun

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monachism (countable and uncountable, plural monachisms)

  1. 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.

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