monachist
monachist adjective: synonym of monastic.
Adjective
monachist (comparative more monachist, superlative most monachist)
- Synonym of monastic.
- At its beginning, the monachist movement was a non-violent protest against the worldliness of a Church in service to the empire.1989, Ronald P. Hamel, Kenneth R. Himes, Kenneth B. Himes, Introduction to Christian Ethics, page 36
- 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.1993, Marc Shell, Children of the Earth: Literature, Politics, and Nationhood, page 119
- Synonyms:
- monastic
Noun
monachist (plural monachists)
- A monk, especially one who was part of the religious reform movement of the fourth century.
- He lives in monastic loneliness, not that he is a hermit, but he makes himself into a monastery from which, as at Mount Athos, everything that deals with sex is excluded, and like the monachists of the Middle Ages he pays the penalty to desregarded Nature.1921, James Harold Edward Crees, Meredith Revisited, and Other Essays, page 95
- Indeed, the friars went much farther than the reforming monachists.1928, John David Griffith Davies, Frederick Robert Worts, England in the Middle Ages: Its Problems and Legacies, page 143
Examples of monachist in a sentence
- Both required industry and productive labor from all able-bodied members and were thus sharply distinguished from the begging, communal orders, such as the Buddhist and Christian monachists.1967, Martin Alfred Larson, The Essene Heritage:
- The rage for production had swept England, as the rage for piety had swept the age of the monachists.1970, Philip A. M. Taylor, The industrial revolution in Britain: triumph or disaster?, page 69:
Synonyms of monachist
Forms of monachist
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more monachist |
| superlative | most monachist |
| Noun | |
| plural | monachists |
Questions about monachist
- What does monachist mean?
- Monachist means synonym of monastic.
- How do you use monachist in a sentence?
- Both required industry and productive labor from all able-bodied members and were thus sharply distinguished from the begging, communal orders, such as the Buddhist and Christian monachists.
- What part of speech is monachist?
- Monachist can be an adjective or a noun.
Words near monachist in the dictionary
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