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Meanings of monkery in English

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Usage of monkery in English
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Is there anything stirring in the monkery, more than common?
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
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Maybe they chose a hard death-perhapsthat was the secret of the whole monkery game!
The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political
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And then your father followed you...and the great house on the hill went for a Trappist monkery..
The new yorker
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One who has read of the vestal virgins of old will recognize at once where monkery originated.
The Revelation Explained / An Exposition, Text by Text, of the A...
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In the Twelfth Century a college was merely a monkery that took in boarders, and learning was acquired by absorption.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 / Little J...
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Luther had grasped the fundamental idea in monkery quite well: flight from the secular life as a means to become exceptionally holy.
Luther Examined and Reexamined / A Review of Catholic Criticism ...
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He thought he had found in monkery a gold-mine of holiness that would be sufficient not only for himself, but also for his parents.
Luther Examined and Reexamined / A Review of Catholic Criticism ...
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By their own principles monkery is not a natural life; yet, when a monk fails in his monkery, they fault him for not being natural.
Luther Examined and Reexamined / A Review of Catholic Criticism ...
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Have you not seen enough of monkery this afternoon, that you must try still to make that poor girl even such a one as yourselves?
Hypatia — or New Foes with an Old Face
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Sir Morgan Mumchance, of Much Monkery, in the county of Mad Mopery.
Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2
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Monkery was broken up, like a ship dashed against the shores of the bay of Biscay.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 335, September 1...
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Milksops I hate, and send to the monkeries.
The Red Axe
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Monkery being extinguished above eighty or ninety years, and the Lord General's name being Monk, is the dead man.
Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3
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"We need a market town, not a monkery."
Hood
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"Is that what they teach in the monkery?"
Scarlet
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There was sanctuary in those times, in the monkeries-andthe churches, where the soldiers of the king dared not go, for fear of God.
The Rising of the Court
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