cenobitism

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

cenobite + -ism

Noun

cenobitism (uncountable)

  1. The state of being a cenobite; the belief or practice of a cenobite.
    • 1837, Alphonse de Lamartine, Robert Huish, transl., Travels in the Holy Land:
      The baides in which the early christians took refuge in the ages of cenobitism or of persecution

References

  • cenobitism in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Romanian

Etymology

From French cénobitisme.

Noun

cenobitism n (uncountable)

  1. cenobitism

Declension

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