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Monk

A man who retires from the ordinary temporal concerns of the world, and devotes himself to religion; one of a religious community of men inhabiting a monastery, and bound by vows to a life of chastity, obedience, and poverty.

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Brother 76% connected

A male person who has the same father and mother with another person, or who has one of them only. In the latter case he is more definitely called a…

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Carthusian 76% connected

A member of an exceeding austere religious order, founded at Chartreuse in France by St. Bruno, in the year 1086.

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Cistercian 76% connected

A monk of the prolific branch of the Benedictine Order, established in 1098 at Citeaux, in France, by Robert, abbot of Molesme. For two hundred years…

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Trappist 76% connected

A monk belonging to a branch of the Cistercian Order, which was established by Armand de Rance in 1660 at the monastery of La Trappe in Normandy. Ext…

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Religious 76% connected

Of or pertaining to religion; concerned with religion; teaching, or setting forth, religion; set apart to religion; as, a religious society; a religi…

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Monastic 92% connected

A monk.

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Abbey noun · 78% connection

A monastery or society of persons of either sex, secluded from the world and devoted to religion and celibacy; also, the monastic buil…

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Anchorite noun · 78% connection

One who renounces the world and secludes himself, usually for religious reasons; a hermit; a recluse.

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Busybody noun · 78% connection

One who officiously concerns himself with the affairs of others; a meddling person.

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Cell noun · 78% connection

A small religious house attached to a monastery or convent.

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Community noun · 78% connection

a group of people having a religion, ethnic, profession, or other particular characteristic in common; "he was well known throughout t…

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Concern verb · 78% connection

To engage by feeling or sentiment; to interest; as, a good prince concerns himself in the happiness of his subjects.

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Convent verb · 78% connection

A house occupied by a community of religious recluses; a monastery or nunnery.

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Decentering noun · 78% connection

Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development where a child slowly moves away from an egocentric world to a world shared with others.;…

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Decentration noun · 78% connection

Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development where a child slowly moves away from an egocentric world to a world shared with others.;…

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Devout verb · 78% connection

Devoted to religion or to religious feelings and duties; absorbed in religious exercises; given to devotion; pious; reverent; religiou…

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Estate noun · 78% connection

The great classes or orders of a community or state (as the clergy, the nobility, and the commonalty of England) or their representati…

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Habitation noun · 78% connection

The act of inhabiting; state of inhabiting or dwelling, or of being inhabited; occupancy.

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Hermit noun · 78% connection

A person who retires from society and lives in solitude; a recluse; an anchoret; especially, one who so lives from religious motives.

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Himself pron. · 78% connection

An emphasized form of the third person masculine pronoun; -- used as a subject usually with he; as, he himself will bear the blame; us…

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Minster noun · 78% connection

A church of a monastery. The name is often retained and applied to the church after the monastery has ceased to exist (as Beverly Mins…

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Monastery noun · 78% connection

A house of religious retirement, or of secusion from ordinary temporal concerns, especially for monks; -- more rarely applied to such…

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Monastical adjective · 78% connection

Secluded from temporal concerns and devoted to religion; recluse.

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People noun · 78% connection

The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a natio…

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