eremitic
eremitical

The eremitic life was apparently healthy for some, but led to imbalance in others.

Up to this point in time, Christian asceticism had been solitary or eremitic.

Eremitic monks, or hermits, are those who live solitary lives.

Early Maronite settlement in the valley combined both community and eremitic life.

Quite a few Rangers were eremitic types, sane enough but basically schizoid.

It was initially fairly eremitic or reclusive in nature.

Yet the anchoritic life, while similar to the eremitic life, can also be distinct from it.

We will forget the eremitic laws.

Here, they founded an eremitic cell.

The Christian eremitic vocation has the same purpose, as the name hermit applied to those that embrace it indicates.

A convert to Eastern Orthodoxy, France takes the eremitic tradition at face value.

Cenobitic - monastic tradition that stresses community life as opposed to eremitic (like a hermit).

Cenobitic monks were also different from their eremitic predecessors and counterparts in their actual living arrangements.

Eremitic monasticism, or solitary monasticism, is characterized by a complete withdrawal from society.

Felix, writing within living memory of Guthlac, described his eremitic life as follows:

There exist in the East three types of monasticism: eremitic, cenobitic, and the skete.

Order of Watchers, a contemporary French Protestant eremitic fraternity.

Such language indicates how she and Rolle were pioneering a change in the conception of the eremitic vocation".

Though the eremitic life would eventually be overshadowed by the far more numerous vocations to the cenobitic life, it did survive.

But traditional techniques for this realisation depend upon a monastic or eremitic life difficult to attain for the average Westerner.

A hermit (adjectival form: eremitic or hermitic) is a person who lives, to some degree, in seclusion from society.

His idea was to unite the ascetic advantages of the eremitic life to a life in community, while avoiding the dangers of the former.

"This place is hardly eremitic in character," James said dryly, looking around at the bustling crowd of stockjobbers and solicitors.

Some monks found the eremitic style to be too lonely and difficult; and if one was not spiritually prepared, the life could lead to mental breakdowns.

Marinus followed a much harsher, ascetic and solitary lifestyle, which was originally of Irish eremitic origins.

About 1227 he left the community to lead an austere, eremitical life.

The eremitical monasteries, on the contrary, are everywhere, and especially in the North.

Few laymen could follow the eremitical and wandering life of a Francis.

He settled in a wood and led an eremitical life in a cell by the side of a spring.

This type of monasticism is called eremitical or "hermit-like."

This condemnation of the eremitical life is interesting because of what might almost be called its tameness.

It might be supposed that so uncompromising a verdict against the eremitical life would stir up a fierce conflict.

Choir nuns tend to lead somewhat less eremitical lives, while still maintaining a strong commitment to solitude and silence.

It was the eremitical, not the cenobitical, type of monasticism which went forth from Egypt.

They lived an eremitical life, based on that of Elijah and Saint John the Baptist.

At the beginning, the Marian Fathers lived an eremitical rule of life as they pursued final recognition and approval by the Church.

The sacerdotal and teaching functions largely absorbed the monastic and eremitical passions of the new orders.

There were villages or colonies of hermits - the eremitical type; and monasteries in which a community life was led - the cenobitic type.

The cenobitical life steadily became the normal form of the religious calling, and the eremitical one the exceptional form, requiring a long previous training.

From the Middle Ages and down to modern times eremitical monasticism has also been practiced within the context of religious institutes in the Christian West.

It was founded in about 1134 by Saint Stephen of Obazine, who after his ordination, with another priest, Pierre, began the eremitical life.

The Greek word for desert, eremos, gave this form of religious living the name eremitic (or eremitical) life, and the person leading it the name hermit.

He may also have founded a group of eremitical canon priests; these canons merged with the Canons Regular of the Lateran in 1507.

The order has its own Rule, called the Statutes, rather than the Rule of Saint Benedict, and combines eremitical and cenobitic life.

Romuald chose to be under a spiritual master, Marinus, who followed a much harsher ascetic and solitary lifestyle that was originally of Irish eremitical origins.

A full practice of the third Evangelical counsel of obedience could only be realized after the monastic ideal had taken root and passed beyond the purely eremitical stage.

In strong contrast with the individualism of the eremitical life was the rigid discipline which prevailed in the cenobitical monasteries founded by St. Pachomius.

Shortly after the middle of the fourth century, two monks, Pgol and Pschais, changed their eremitical monasteries into cenobitical ones.

He realized that men, acquainted only with the eremitical life, might speedily become disgusted, if the distracting cares of the cenobitical life were thrust too abruptly upon them.