What's the difference between cenobite and coenobite?

Cenobite


Definition:

  • (n.) One of a religious order, dwelling in a convent, or a community, in opposition to an anchoret, or hermit, who lives in solitude.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) And so the argument will roll on about The Fairy Jobmother, with us all accusing each other of being soft-arsed liberals or boggle-eyed neocons, and of "mollycoddling the workshy" or "bullying the working classes" and how the problem lies with the government … In fact, let's blame Eric Pickles – I find it easy to do this with most subjects thanks to Eric's "Cenobite from Hellraiser" qualities.

Coenobite


Definition:

  • (n.) See Cenobite.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The word was conveyed to us by another monk of the egyptian deserts, Jean Cassien, with a change of meaning which made it very difficult to distinguish from sadness: his audience being very different from his predecessor's, as he wrote for Latins, little inclined to anachoretic life but among which developed the first great coenobitic institutions of the Occident.

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