monastic
Example Sentences
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Ukraine’s Ministry of Culture sought to offer similar assurances that Lavra’s monastic life would continue.
From Seattle Times
In 2002, the now celebrated music director of the Berlin Philharmonic was a monastically probing and intense young Russian fish out of water who made little impression.
From Los Angeles Times
The successor is traditionally identified by senior monastic disciples, based on spiritual signs and visions.
From Seattle Times
His poems, written under the pen name K Za Win, were full of a vigor that belied his monastic background.
From New York Times
They were defrocked in August 2018 for what church officials called violations of monastic life and then detained.
From Reuters
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
