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monkery

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Definitions

  1. Monastic practices or the way of life of monks.

Word origin

From monk + -ery.

Used in a sentence

  • The sides resemble castellated piles and Gothic cathedrals, so fantastic are the shapes assumed by the natural rock; under St. Saba it became a monkery for all penitents who wished to live a hermit's life.
  • Polite society won't have the truth. You've got to feed it on lies, or go into a monkery — if that's what they call a masculine nunnery. Don't want to go into a monkery, so I lie. Reluctantly, delicately, frequently.
  • Unquestionably the monkery of the middle ages was better ordered than that of the Nicene.

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