"Monkery" is a word in ENGLISH
The life of monks; monastic life; monastic usage or
customs; -- now usually applied by way of reproach.
A collective body of monks.
The values we rightly associate with the modern age - the "liberty, equality, and fraternity" of the French revolution - are all endangered today not by the dead hand of tradition but by modernity itself, and they can be salvaged only by moving beyond it.
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An association or community of recluses devoted to a religious life; a body of monks or nuns.
Read the complete definitionA Turkish or Persian monk, especially one who professes extreme poverty and leads an austere life.
Read the complete definitionOf or pertaining to monks or a monastic life; monastic.
Read the complete definitionA man who retires from the ordinary temporal concerns of the world, and devotes himself to religion; one of a …
Read the complete definitionShut up; sequestered; retired from the world or from public notice; solitary; living apart; as, a recluse monk or hermit; …
Read the complete definitionA person bound by monastic vows, or sequestered from secular concern, and devoted to a life of piety and religion; …
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