单词 | monasticism |
释义 | monasticismn. The monastic system or mode of life. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > monasticism > [noun] > monastic life or condition monkhoodeOE religiona1200 habitc1290 monkheada1400 religiosityc1443 monkery?1536 monachism?1570 monkship1620 cowl1653 monkism1659 monkishnessa1729 the cloister1781 monasticism1795 monkliness1887 1795 J. Milner Hist. Church of Christ ii. xix. 263 Monasticism continued to make a rapid progress through this whole century. 1845 H. Rogers Ess. (1874) I. iii. 144 The church would soon have fallen back, like the purified forms of monasticism, into its ancient corruptions. 1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest II. x. 445 Monasticism, in one form or another, was triumphant for some ages. 1883 Contemp. Rev. Dec. 806 No one can question the services rendered to civilization by western monasticism. 1936 H. A. L. Fisher Hist. Europe 175 The century which followed the conversion of Constantine is marked by the spread of monasticism through western Europe. 1963 T. Ware Orthodox Church vi. 117 Russia needed both the Josephite and the Transvolgian forms of monasticism. 1990 Dalai Lama XIV Freedom in Exile i. 2 The palanquin..was yellow in colour (to denote monasticism). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1795 |
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