monachism
English
Etymology
From Late Latin monachus (“monk”) + -ism.
Noun
monachism (countable and uncountable, plural monachisms)
- Monasticism. [from 16th c.]
- 1791, Joseph Priestley, Letters to Burke, 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.
- 1791, Joseph Priestley, Letters to Burke, VI:
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