monkeries
- plural of monkery.
Example Sentences
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These teachers commanded separation from society, isolation in the wilderness, the establishment of monkeries and the performance of self-appointed works.
From Epistle Sermons, Vol. III Trinity Sunday to Advent by Luther, Martin
In the latter year Dom Pedro suppressed monkeries and nunneries by disallowing masses, and by pensioning the holy tenantry with 9 dols. per mensem, afterwards, reduced to 5 dols.
From To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
Broke violently in upon quiescent Austrian routine, on every side: monkeries, school-pedantries, trade-monopolies, serfages,—all things, military and civil, spiritual and temporal, he had resolved to make perfect in a minimum of time.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 21 by Carlyle, Thomas
Yet Diderot had far too much genius to be tempted into the exaggerations of more vulgar assailants of monkeries and nunneries.
From Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. by Morley, John
These monkeries were established in the land by virtue of civil authority.
From Old Calabria by Douglas, Norman
