Assertion: advent's character | /r/HasProperty | become obsolete
Facets:
value: except in monasteries
type: OTHER
value: quite
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: But, if the exterior practices of penance which formerly sanctified the season of Advent, have been, in the western Church, so gradually relaxed as to have become now quite obsolete except in monasteries, the general character of the liturgy of this holy time has not changed; [Our recent English observance of fast and abstinence on the Wednesdays and Fridays in Advent, may, in some sense, be regarded as a remnant of the ancient discipline.]