monachist

monachist (comparative more monachist, superlative most monachist)

1. Synonym of monastic
   • 1989, Ronald P. Hamel, Kenneth R. Himes, Kenneth B. Himes, Introduction to Christian Ethics, page 36:

     At its beginning, the monachist movement was a non-violent protest against the worldliness of a Church in service to the empire.

   • 1993, Marc Shell, Children of the Earth: Literature, Politics, and Nationhood, page 119:

     The tragedy of Hamlet resides in the revelation that marriage, monachist celibacy, secular libertinism, and imperial joinery — institutions which at first blush seem quite different from each other — are one and the same.

   • 1995, Jean-François de Galaup comte de La Pérouse, John Dunmore, The Journal of Jean-François de Galaup de la Pérouse, 1785-1788, →ISBN:

     This monachist regime which excites the soul and over-persuades these people (already lazy as the result of the climate and the lack of necessity) that life is only a transition and that the goods of this world are superfluities, combines with ...

monachist (plural monachists)

1. A monk, especially one who was part of the religious reform movement of the fourth century.
   • 1921, James Harold Edward Crees, Meredith Revisited, and Other Essays, page 95:

     He lives in monastic loneliness, not that he is a hermit, but he makes himself into a monastery from which, as at Mount Athos, everything that deals with sex is excluded, and like the monachists of the Middle Ages he pays the penalty to desregarded Nature.

   • 1928, John David Griffith Davies, Frederick Robert Worts, England in the Middle Ages: Its Problems and Legacies, page 143:

     Indeed, the friars went much farther than the reforming monachists.

   • 1967, Martin Alfred Larson, The Essene Heritage:

     Both required industry and productive labor from all able-bodied members and were thus sharply distinguished from the begging, communal orders, such as the Buddhist and Christian monachists.

   • 1970, Philip A. M. Taylor, The industrial revolution in Britain: triumph or disaster?, page 69:

     The rage for production had swept England, as the rage for piety had swept the age of the monachists.

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