Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being a cenobite; the principles or practices of cenobites.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state of being a cenobite; the belief or practice of a cenobite.
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- noun The state of being a
cenobite ; the belief or practice of a cenobite.
Etymologies
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cenobite + -ism
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Examples
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Basil of Caesarea (33079), a leading Greek theologian, attacked the eremitic life, because of the impossibility of material self-sufficiency, the excessive concern with the self, and the lack of opportunity for the exercise of charity; he espoused cenobitism, which eventually became the common form of monasticism in the West.
b. The Early Church 2001
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Asceticism of the solitary life was apart from the organization of the Church; when this form of life had developed in cenobitism it still remained for a time, at least, outside the ecclesiastical organization.
A Source Book for Ancient Church History Joseph Cullen Ayer 1905
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