monkish

• For a monkish chronicler, it was natural to estimate the progress of affairs by the number of abbeys founded; the virtue of men by the sum-total of donations to the clergy. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Life of Friedrich Schiller, by Thomas Carlyle
• To illustrate his "monkish" consecration to his craft we cannot do better than reproduce a passage, quoted by Pater, from his letters to Madame Colet I must scold you for one thing, which shocks, scandalises me, the small concern, namely, you show for art just now. —  The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters
• He was a monkish-looking person with a fastidious mouth and well-shaped head. —  A Wreath for Rivera - also as Swing, Brother, Swing - Ngaio Marsh - Alleyn 15: 1949
• Then he confesses he has 'monkish' tendencies - hence his choice of hotel today. —  Home | Mail Online
• St. Bernard [1091-1153], as the monkish chroniclers tell us, mounting the pulpit to preach in his abbey, was interrupted by a crowd of flies; straightway the saint uttered the sacred formula of excommunication, when the flies fell dead upon the pavement in heaps, and were cast out with shovels! —  Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing

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