monkhood
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
The nexus between the military and monkhood is nothing new.
From BBC • Jan. 23, 2024
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
A monk need not necessarily teach; the aim and object of the monkhood is, as I have written in the last chapter, purity and abstraction from the world.
From The Soul of a People by Fielding, H. (Harold)
