monachism
81misogyny — Synonyms and related words: Anglophobia, Russophobia, abhorrence, abomination, anti Semitism, antipathy, aversion, bachelordom, bachelorhood, bachelorism, bachelorship, bigotry, celibacy, continence, despitefulness, detestation, dislike,… …
82monasticism — Synonyms and related words: Albigensianism, Catharism, Franciscanism, Sabbatarianism, Trappism, Waldensianism, Yoga, abstinence, anchoritic monasticism, anchoritism, asceticism, austerity, bachelordom, bachelorhood, bachelorism, bachelorship,… …
83mortification — Synonyms and related words: Albigensianism, Catharism, Day of Atonement, Franciscanism, Sabbatarianism, Trappism, Waldensianism, Yoga, Yom Kippur, abasement, abashment, abstinence, anchoritic monasticism, anchoritism, asceticism, austerity,… …
84rigor — Synonyms and related words: Albigensianism, Catharism, Franciscanism, Sabbatarianism, Trappism, Waldensianism, Yoga, absolute zero, absoluteness, abstinence, abstruseness, accuracy, acerbity, acidity, acridity, acrimony, acuteness, adverse… …
85self-denial — Synonyms and related words: Albigensianism, Catharism, Franciscanism, Sabbatarianism, Trappism, Waldensianism, Yoga, abnegation, abstaining, abstemiousness, abstention, abstinence, altruism, anchoritic monasticism, anchoritism, aplomb, asceticism …
86singleness — Synonyms and related words: aloneness, bachelordom, bachelorhood, bachelorism, bachelorship, celibacy, combination, continence, elementarity, fundamentality, fusion, homogeneity, identity, individuality, indivisibility, intactness, integrality,… …
87spinsterhood — Synonyms and related words: bachelordom, bachelorhood, bachelorism, bachelorship, celibacy, continence, maidenhead, maidenhood, misogamy, misogyny, monachism, monasticism, single blessedness, single state, singleness, unwed state, virgin state,… …
88virginity — Synonyms and related words: Platonic love, abstinence, artlessness, bachelordom, bachelorhood, bachelorism, bachelorship, berry, brand newness, callowness, celibacy, chasteness, chastity, continence, continency, dewiness, freshness, gloss of… …
89AN`TONY, ST. — a famous anchorite of the Thebaïd, where from the age of thirty he spent 20 years of his life, in a lonely ruin by himself, resisting devils without number; left his retreat for a while to institute monasteries, and so became the founder of… …
90BENEDICT, ST. — the founder of Western monachism, born near Spoleto; left home at 14; passed three years as a hermit, in a cavern near Subiaco, to prepare himself for God s service; attracted many to his retreat; appointed to an abbey, but left it; founded 12 …
