Monastic Synonyms

mə-năstĭk
Of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows
(Adjective)
Synonyms:
  1. ascetic
  2. humble
  3. pious
  4. austere
  5. celibate
  6. cloistered
  7. devout
  8. contemplative
  9. monkish
  10. cloistral
  11. oblate
  12. reclusive
  13. secluded
  14. conventual
  15. solitary
  16. monastical
A male religious living in a cloister and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. monk

Words Related to Monastic

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Monastic Sentence Examples

  • The number of monastic institutions in the island is very small.

  • A monastic library was the proper place for this gentle emotional dreamer, who clung so fondly to the ancient traditions.

  • In the 2nd half of the 4th century lived the monk Gregory, who wrote a treatise on the monastic life.

  • Coptic papyri mainly contain Biblical or religious texts or monastic deeds.

  • In the literature as it survives many different branches of writing are represented - homilies in prose and verse, hymns, exposition and commentary, liturgy, apocryphal legends, historical romance, hagiography and martyrology, monastic history and biography, general history, dogmatics, philosophy and science, ecclesiastical law, &c. But the whole is dominated by the theological and ecclesiastical interest.

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