monkhood
Americannoun
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the condition or profession of a monk.
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monks collectively.
noun
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the condition of being a monk
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monks collectively
Etymology
Origin of monkhood
Middle English monkehode, Old English munuchād. See monk, -hood
Example Sentences
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The gig becomes a lonely endeavor, however, when the pandemic hits and he’s confined to a depopulated campus, sent unwillingly into a kind of monkhood.
From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2026
Police said the case first came to their attention in mid-June, when they learned that an abbot in Bangkok had suddenly left the monkhood after being extorted by a woman.
From BBC • Jul. 16, 2025
The military and monkhood cannot be divided, he said.
From New York Times • Aug. 28, 2021
After his parents died in Myanmar when he was a boy, he entered the Buddhist monkhood in Thailand for nearly a decade, a common option for orphans untethered from financial support.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 10, 2018
So deeply, indeed, was the taste for monkhood implanted, that his fifth successor is said to have built two thousand convents.
From History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume I. by Anderson, Rufus
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