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Recent Examples of monastic
Chris R. Morgan, The Washington Examiner, 22 Aug. 2025
The practice of self-flagellation, Norman Cohn informs us, was seemingly first adopted by monastic hermits in the eleventh century.
—Michael Robbins, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
Koh Ewe, TIME, 13 May 2024
Over the past 2,000 years, Buddhist teachings have encountered distortions and alterations due to mistranslation and misinterpretation of Buddha-dharma by Buddhist patriarchs, eminent monastics, and Buddhist scholars.
—Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 25 July 2023
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Adjective
Descending into a basement or crowding into a VFW hall, a bowling alley, or even a Denny’s has an almost monastic aura.
—Chris R. Morgan, The Washington Examiner, 22 Aug. 2025
The practice of self-flagellation, Norman Cohn informs us, was seemingly first adopted by monastic hermits in the eleventh century.
—Michael Robbins, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
Noun
Buddhist organizations, whose members are also known to skew older, have been trying to connect with younger people by updating the image of monastics, usually known for their no-nonsense asceticism.
—Koh Ewe, TIME, 13 May 2024
Over the past 2,000 years, Buddhist teachings have encountered distortions and alterations due to mistranslation and misinterpretation of Buddha-dharma by Buddhist patriarchs, eminent monastics, and Buddhist scholars.
—Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 25 July 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for monastic
Adjective
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In fact, the ascetic value of fasting from meat required that the person otherwise enjoy it.—
Livia Gershon,
JSTOR Daily,
4 Aug. 2025
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Greens embodied the ascetic lushness of the farm-to-table movement, which, in Northern California, was synonymous with the Berkeley restaurant Chez Panisse.—
John Birdsall,
New Yorker,
25 July 2025
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But degraded conventual forces could drive Putin to other means of exerting force.—
Matt Seyler,
ABC News,
10 May 2022
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The Rev. Brad Heckathorne, a Conventual Franciscan friar, performed the ceremony at the chapel at Duke University.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
23 Apr. 2017
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There are black-and-white scenes from what appears to be a cracked Biblical drama featuring a levitating monk and, to the particular bafflement of the producer, a dancing Pulcinella.—
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
5 Sep. 2025
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In her retellings, Daedone has described Davon as a Buddhist monk.—
Thessaly La Force,
New Yorker,
29 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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The festival would know that better than most, juxtaposing classical music—and its expectation of monkish silence—with the heart of Chicago’s downtown, and the human mix therein.—
Hannah Edgar,
Chicago Tribune,
16 Aug. 2025
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Obama has retreated into monkish silence, broken only for special occasions such as celebrity deaths and the recording of Bruce Springsteen podcasts.—
Isaac Chotiner,
The New Yorker,
17 July 2024
Adjective
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The first mendicant orders, like the Franciscans and Dominicans, received papal approval in the early 13th century.—
Joanne M. Pierce,
The Conversation,
27 May 2025
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The abrupt appearance and disappearance of the mendicant pilgrim is part of her power.—
Seyward Darby,
Longreads,
5 Apr. 2023
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The Mission grape, the Spanish Crown, the Franciscan friars and Indigenous people built California missions and laid the groundwork for California’s world-class wine industry.—
Layne Randolph,
Forbes.com,
22 Aug. 2025
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Other friars scribbled complaints about cold weather and poor-quality materials.—
Andrea Margolis,
FOXNews.com,
22 July 2025
Adjective
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The Bible And Armenia’s Wine History The winemaking apparatus was found next to what amounts to a cemetery, likely for sacramental or religious purposes.—
Layne Randolph,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
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Either way, the installation was not meant to replace sacramental confession.—
Kaif Shaikh,
Interesting Engineering,
15 Aug. 2025
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Of all the precious goods accumulated by the rulers and ecclesiastics of late medieval Ethiopia, the most charged of all were books.—
Peter Brown,
The New York Review of Books,
24 Sep. 2020
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This shop for ecclesiastics has an exquisite selection of high-quality pieces.—
Zoe Ruffner,
Vogue,
19 Dec. 2019
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“Monastic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monastic. Accessed 14 Sep. 2025.
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