friarhood

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• celibacy — Synonyms and related words: Encratism, Friday, Lenten fare, Platonic love, Pythagoreanism, Pythagorism, Rechabitism, Shakerism, Spartan fare, Stoicism, abstainment, abstemiousness, abstention, abstinence, alienation, aloneness, aloofness,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• monasticism — Synonyms and related words: Albigensianism, Catharism, Franciscanism, Sabbatarianism, Trappism, Waldensianism, Yoga, abstinence, anchoritic monasticism, anchoritism, asceticism, austerity, bachelordom, bachelorhood, bachelorism, bachelorship,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• monasticism — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. monkhood, monachism, friarhood. See clergy. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. priesthood, cloistered life, celibacy; see ministry 2 …   English dictionary for students

• monasticism — n 1. monkhood, monachism, ceno bitism, monkism, friarhood, brotherhood, monkdom, (usu. contemptuous) monkery; the cloister, the contemplative life, life of prayer, the better part; sisterhood, nunhood, nunship. 2. asceticism, self denial, self… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder