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Meanings of monastic in English
Of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows.
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Usage of monastic in English
1
The expenses of the Roman Curia increased; the monastic Orders were wealthy.
2
Absolutely nothing was left in the house after the monastic sacked it.
3
There had long been other monastic Rules known in the Frankish territories.
4
There is a moral lesson in these memorials of the monastic ages.
5
You and I have lived over forty years in the monastic life.
6
There was an almost monastic air of strict minimum about the place.
7
In Egypt there is a similar ambiguity about the first monastic institutions.
8
The monastic profession of the ancients was an act of voluntary devotion.
9
The cathedral and monastic schools served to keep alive the ancient learning.
10
The monastic houses fall often under the arrogant rule of lay abbats.
11
Athleticism in England is an asceticism, as much as the monastic rules.
12
It reminded him dimly of a similar resting-place during his monastic life.
13
Many abbesses came to run monastic communities; they were from royal families.
14
No Kevin or Finbarr chanced this way to found a monastic settlement.
15
In the old monastic Books almost no Mention whatever of 'personal religion.'
16
As soon as she embraced the monastic life we read of hospitals.
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United Kingdom
Common
Ireland
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United States of America
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