(n.) The system and influences of a monastic life; monasticism.
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Monasticism
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(n.) The monastic life, system, or condition.
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(1) It was a taste of off-grid hippy monasticism inspired by his time at Taliesin West, where each student had to build their own shelter in the desert (a tradition that continues there today), and an embodiment of his underlying motive to “frugalise the frenzied consumerist juggernaut”.
(2) Shielded from Europe, Copts developed distinctive customs such as fasting, monasticism and the usage of liturgical Coptic, derived from the Pharaonic language of ancient Egypt.
(3) A preoccupation with time is central to Western culture and is traceable to the social context--thirteenth-century monasticism--in which the clock was first invented.
(4) It left me with a sense that people need to be able to put their case.” Rose studied history – the Crusades and Anglo-Saxon monasticism – at Oxford, graduating with a first-class degree.
(5) Bishop Angaelos describes the evening as "surreal", though it is unclear whether this surreality comes from today's news, or from his sandy surroundings, which Angaelos claims to be the birthplace of monasticism.