noun
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The practices of monks; the way of life, behavior, etc. characteristic of monks; monastic life.
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Monasticism.
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A monastery.
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Monks, considered as a group. (Compare clergy, laity.)
Examples of monkery in a Sentence
Renunciation of the state of wedlock was anyhow imposed on the faithful during the lengthy, often lifelong, terms of penance imposed upon them for sins committed; and later, when monkery took the place, in a church become worldly, partly of the primitive baptism and partly of that rigorous penance which was the rebaptism and medicine of the lapsed, celibacy and virginity were held essential thereto, no less than renunciation of property and money-making.
Monkery is common among them, but there are no nuns.
The same hatred of monkery characterized the Thonraki and inspires the Key of Truth.