Cistercianism

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noun

The beliefs and practices of the Cistercian monastic order.

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Meanings

nounCistercianism (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe beliefs and practices of the Cistercian monastic order.

    […] maximism of the Cluniacs on the one hand and the minimism of puritanic Cistercianism on the other.

    1918, Edmund Bishop, Liturgica Historica, page 229

Origin

From Cistercian + -ism.

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