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

In response to the conscription law, some have said on social media that they would enter the monkhood or get married early to dodge military service.

From BBC • Feb. 26, 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

By 'ecclesiastical' I mean such matters as referred to the ownership and habitation of monasteries, the building of pagodas and places of prayer, the discipline of the monkhood.

From The Soul of a People by Fielding, H. (Harold)