1. (n.) The life of monks; monastic life; monastic usage or customs; -- now usually applied by way of reproach.

2. (n.) A collective body of monks.

Encratism Friday Lenten fare Platonic love Pythagoreanism Pythagorism Rechabitism Shakerism Spartan fare Stoicism abstainment abstemiousness abstention abstinence alienation aloneness aloofness asceticism avoidance bachelorhood banyan day chastity continence continency detachment eschewal fast fish day friarhood fruitarianism gymnosophy intactness isolation keeping apart loneliness loneness lonesomeness maidenhead maidenhood monachism monasticism monkery moving apart nephalism plain living privacy purity refraining refrainment seclusion self-restraint separateness sequestration sexual abstinence simple diet single blessedness singleness solitariness solitude spare diet spinsterhood splendid isolation teetotalism the pledge total abstinence vegetarianism virginity withdrawal