monkery
noun
the mode of life, behavior, etc., of monks; monastic life.
monkeries
-
pluralof monkery.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
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 Martin Luther
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 Sir Richard Francis Burton
What a rag-fair of extinct monkeries, high-piled here in the very shrine of our existence, fit to smite the generations with atrophy and beggarly paralysis,—as we see it do!
From Latter-Day Pamphlets by Thomas Carlyle
Buddhist monkeries and nunneries are almost as common, and certainly more ancient than Roman Catholic monasteries, and they had very nearly the same numerous accessories in worship, which we are familiar with in papal countries.
From Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities by Thomas Inman
These monkeries were established in the land by virtue of civil authority.
From Old Calabria by Norman Douglas
