The eremitic element in the life of a religious colony. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
eremitic austerities. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Quite a few Rangers were eremitic types, sane enough but basically schizoid. From Wordnik.com. [Explorations]
Misanthropic and eremitic, He was scruffy, ill-mannered, unemployable, and only went out after dark. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Corelli's Mandolin]
The outline of the Greek story is as follows: -- St Thomas had converted the people of India, and after the eremitic life originated in Egypt, many. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference
In the first half of the 4th century Pachomius (c. 290346) established cenobitic (communal, in contrast to eremitic) monasteries for men and for women in Upper Egypt. From Wordnik.com. [b. The Early Church] Reference
Basil of Caesarea (33079), a leading Greek theologian, attacked the eremitic life, because of the impossibility of material self-sufficiency, the excessive concern with the self, and the lack of opportunity for the exercise of charity; he espoused cenobitism, which eventually became the common form of monasticism in the West. From Wordnik.com. [b. The Early Church] Reference
The Spirituals began to seek relief in a return to the eremitic life. From Wordnik.com. [The Church and the Empire, Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 1003 to A.D. 1304] Reference
But the eremitic life proper really begins only in the time of the persecutions. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference
She soon knew she wanted a more formal expression of her calling and began researching eremitic life. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
Discussions arose in Egypt as to the respective merits of the cenobitic and the eremitic style of life. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference
The councils and the monastic rules did not encourage those who were desirous of leading an eremitic life. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference
Cenobitic communities sprang up among them, but did not become so important as to extinguish the eremitic life. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference
From the beginning of the seventh century, we meet with instances of monks who at intervals led an eremitic life. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference
His idea was to unite the ascetic advantages of the eremitic life to a life in community, while avoiding the dangers of the former. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner] Reference
Since then the eremitic life has been gradually abandoned, and the attempts made to revive it in the last century have had no success. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference
The founder of the Carthusians, Bruno, a native of Koln, but master of the Cathedral school at Rheims, also took the eremitic life as his model for the individual. From Wordnik.com. [The Church and the Empire, Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 1003 to A.D. 1304] Reference
His attraction was for the cenobitic not eremitic life, so after staying for some time with the monks at Camaldoli, he settled at Vallombrosa, where he founded his monastery. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner] Reference
He had been living the eremitic life on the isle of Gallinaria, shaped so like a snail, off the coast of Albenga, and had nearly poisoned himself with trying to eat hellebore leaves. From Wordnik.com. [Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe] Reference
Spirit; the approval of new forms of consecrated life is reserved to the Apostolic See. 459 The eremitic life 920 Without always professing the three evangelical counsels publicly, hermits. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Boston Archdiocese welcomes 2 rectors as auxiliary bishops] Reference
Baptist had come amongst them like the eremitic prophets of old, as strict as any Nazarite, refusing to eat with the merry-makers or drink with the convivial, and they had said "He hath a devil.". From Wordnik.com. [Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern] Reference
The northeastern Chinese city of Yanji sits a quick 30 minute drive from the border of North Korea, and is one of the best posts for trying to glean the goings-on in that eremitic totalitarian state. From Wordnik.com. [ModerateVoters.org] Reference
The eremitic life spread to the West in the fourth century, and flourished especially in the next two centuries, that is to say, till experience had shown by its results the advantages of the cenobitic organization. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference
But just as there are the different models of monastic life - eremitic, cœnobitic, the skete - so it would seem that different lay folks might seek different levels of community involvement through which to work out their salvation. From Wordnik.com. [The Ochlophobist] Reference
These overscored retreats of devotion, as dusky, some of them, as eremitic caves swarming with importunate visions, have kept me divided all winter between the love of Ghirlandaio and the fear of those seeds of catarrh to which their mortal chill seems propitious till far on into the spring. From Wordnik.com. [Italian Hours] Reference
Less for the sake of reform than of perfection, and of adapting to a special end the combination of the cenobitic and eremitic life, St. Romuald (d. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference
But the first commandment, that's what this is, "she said of her eremitic life. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
"It's a solitary, eremitic lifestyle we live, but we're not the inbred Old Smoky yokels you read about. From Wordnik.com. [The Toque] Reference
You are happy with your eremitic isolation? ". From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]
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