monkery

American  

[muhng-kuh-ree] / ˈmʌŋ kə ri /

noun

Disparaging.

• monkeries
  plural

1. the mode of life, behavior, etc., of monks; monastic life.

2. a monastery.

3. monkeries, the practices, beliefs, etc., of monks.

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monkery British  

/ ˈmʌŋkərɪ /

noun

1. monastic life or practices

2. a monastery or monks collectively

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• monkeries
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of monkery

First recorded in 1530–40; monk + -ery

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Example Sentences

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monkery monkeries

If the salt of the earth––but not to the nunnery nor to the monkery, we go.

From The Book of Khalid by Ameen Fares Rihani

The mountain itself, although far beyond the dominions of Shoa, is renowned as the most sacred seat of monkery.

From The Highlands of Ethiopia by William Cornwallis Harris

And of such there is here enough to glut the gorge of all the monks in monkery, or strengthen for a forty days’ fast any brutallest unwashed theomaniac of the Thebaid. 

From A Study of Shakespeare by Edmund Gosse

"There is no monkery in Islam," he is reported to have said, and there was in fact nothing of the kind for more than a century after his death.

From A Literary History of the Arabs by Reynold Nicholson

It is a duty we owe to truth to penetrate into the mysteries of monkery, but the monks will always retain their right to receive their large claims on our admiration of their labours.

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli

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

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 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

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

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