monachism
Noun

monachism

  1. 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.



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