cenobitism

• coenobitism
• cœnobitism (obsolete)

From cenobite +‎ -ism.

cenobitism (uncountable)

1. The state of being a cenobite; the belief or practice of a cenobite.
   • 1837, Alphonse de Lamartine, translated by Robert Huish, Travels in the Holy Land:

     The baides in which the early christians took refuge in the ages of cenobitism or of persecution

• “cenobitism”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Borrowed from French cénobitisme.

cenobitism n (uncountable)

1. cenobitism