Meaning of monachist | Babel Free

Definitions

Synonym of monastic.

Examples

“At its beginning, the monachist movement was a non-violent protest against the worldliness of a Church in service to the empire.”

“The tragedy of Hamlet resides in the revelation that marriage, monachist celibacy, secular libertinism, and imperial joinery — institutions which at first blush seem quite different from each other — are one and the same.”

“This monachist regime which excites the soul and over-persuades these people (already lazy as the result of the climate and the lack of necessity) that life is only a transition and that the goods of this world are superfluities, combines with ...”

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