Another word for monk
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- A cookie made with molasses, raisins, and nuts.
- A person who has withdrawn from society and lives a solitary existence; a recluse.
- A person who lives alone in a lonely or secluded spot, often from religious motives; recluse
- A recluse or hermit, especially a religious recluse.
- A religious recluse; hermit
- A member of a convent or other religious community.
- A member of a community of monks, nuns, etc.
- A member of a monastic order, especially a nun or monk.
- A person who has retired into seclusion for religious reasons.
- One who is devoted to the practice of self-denial, either through seclusion or stringent abstinence.
- Anyone who lives with strict self-discipline and without the usual pleasures and comforts
- A person who leads a life of contemplation and rigorous self-denial for religious purposes
- (Informal) solitary confinement
- One who lives alone, or in solitude; an anchoret, hermit or recluse.
- A person who lives alone; esp., a hermit
- A person who withdraws from the world to live in seclusion and often in solitude.
- A person who lives a secluded, solitary life
- The superior of a monastery.
- Used as a title for such a person.
- A man who is head of an abbey of monks
- A monastic officer in charge of a priory or ranking next below the abbot of an abbey.
- One of the ruling magistrates of the medieval Italian republic of Florence.
- The head of a priory or other religious house
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