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Definition of Monkish
1. Adjective. Befitting a monk; inclined to self-denial.
Definition of Monkish
1. a. Like a monk, or pertaining to monks; monastic; as, monkish manners; monkish dress; monkish solitude.
Definition of Monkish
1. Adjective. Pertaining to, or resembling a monk or monasticism. ¹
2. Adjective. Tending to self-denial; ascetic. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Monkish
1. pertaining to monks [adj] - See also: monks
Lexicographical Neighbors of Monkish
Literary usage of Monkish
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Six Years in the Monasteries of Italy: And Two Years in the Islands of the by S I Mahoney (1854)
"Jealousies and enmities of monks of different orders—Reasons for entertaining
such hostile feelings against each other—Sample of monkish lampoons—The ..."
2. American Journal of Education (1857)
"monkish TRAINING OF THE YOUNG. Luther disapproves of isolating children from the
world, ... Your monkish strictness is never productive of any good fruit. ..."
3. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1839)
"The writer was at Hull, when the emigrants (principally priests, with their eyes
sadly cast on their breviaries, and clad in their soiled monkish habita, ..."
4. Church History by Johann Heinrich Kurtz (1894)
"Afterwards, however, the ardour and zeal for the practice of this discipline
cooled down more and more in most of the monkish orders as well as in general ..."
5. Bibliomania in the Middle Ages: Or, Sketches of Bookworms, Collectors, Bible by Frederick Somner Merryweather (1849)
"Doubtless, in the ruin of the sixteenth century,' many original works of monkish
authors perished, and the splendour of the transcript rendered it still ..."
6. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"The wild-cat will defend his den, Fights for her nest the timid wren; And think'st
thou I '11 forego my right For dread of monk or monkish knight ? ..."
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