Crossword-Solution: MONASTICISM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Monasticism | n. | The monastic life, system, or condition. |
We have 9 clues for the answer “MONASTICISM”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Austere calling | 1 answer |
| Austere way of life | 1 answer |
| the monastic system or mode of life | 1 answer |
| ASCETICISM AS A FORM OF RELIGIOUS LIFE | 11 answers |
| privacy | 15 answers |
| home life | 27 answers |
| seclusion | 29 answers |
| Solitude | 40 answers |
| virginity | 42 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
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discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with MONASTICISM (5)
Concerning these things preachers heretofore taught but little, and urged only childish and needless works, as particular holy-days, particular fasts, brotherhoods, pilgrimages, services in honor of saints, the use of rosaries, monasticism, and such like.
Therefore, all things must be rejected which in this article have been produced against monasticism--viz.
There is no trace among the Egyptian celibates of that chivalrous woman-worship which our Gothic forefathers brought with them into the West, which shed a softening and ennobling light round the mediæval convent life, and warded off for centuries the worst effects of monasticism.
The genius of monasticism, ancient and modern, is the propitiation of the Divinity who seeks to punish rather than to forgive.
Benedict, the standard of monasticism in Western Christendom, was, according to virtually contemporary authority, completely unknown in England.
Quotes with MONASTICISM (3)
This was all very well: Columbanus's success indicates the appeal of his mission. But his activities, for the first time, brought the nature of Celtic monasticism firmly to the attention of the Church authorities -- to western bishops in general, and to the Bishop of Rome in particular. The Irish monks were not heretical. But they were plainly unorthodox. They did not look right, to begin with. They had the wrong tonsure. Rome, as was natural, had 'the tonsure of St Peter', t…
The desire to experience new kinds of community led a number of thoughtful and idealistic people to reject the patterns of vocation, family life and religion with which they had grown up. Their attempt to establish new patterns of social bonding in uncontaminated rural retreats can be seen as a secular monasticism, but they often discovered that to abolish the boundaries of authority, family and property created a whole series of problems which they did not have the spiritual…
To leave town, and the struggle and the swim of life, and go and hide yourself in a farmhouse is not life -- it is egoism, laziness; it is a kind of monasticism, but monasticism without action. A man needs, not six feet of land, not a farm, but the whole earth, all Nature, where in full liberty he can display all the properties and qualities of the free spirit.
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Appears in: Newsday, New Yorker.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (2019–2022).