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monking
noun 1adj 1
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4ADJ.
other, right
VERB + MONKING
chosen, like
MONKING + NOUN
monk, occupation, receptacles, world
PREP.
since
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noun
1
The work or life of a monk.
He had chosen monking as an occupation (not a calling ,but an occupation) because he feared not only death, but even life itself, thinking that it might be easy work which would provide him shelter against the world he feared.
adj
1
Monkish.
This, said Epistemon, is spoke like a true monk : I mean like a right monking monk, not a bemonked monastical monkling.
May 31, 1834, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk The old coenobitic establishments of England were converted—perverted, rather—into monasteries and other monking receptacles.
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He had chosen monking as an occupation (not a calling ,but an occupation) because he feared not only death, but even life itself, thinking that it might be easy work which would provide him shelter ag
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This, said Epistemon, is spoke like a true monk : I mean like a right monking monk, not a bemonked monastical monkling.
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May 31, 1834, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Table Talk The old coenobitic establishments of England were converted—perverted, rather—into monasteries and other monking receptacles.
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In brief, ere was a true monk if there ever was one since the monking world started monkeying in monkeries.
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