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• s  befitting a monk; inclined to self-denial

• The language, ever malleable, conformed to the ideal: when a monkish salvation was expected of inmates, prisons became penitentiaries, then reformatories, correctional centers .
• A lapsed Catholic, Inoue works in a monkish annex that he calls "the cockpit," next to his vast and growing collection of books.
• In 1947, he exchanged his business suit for the hooded brown habit and sandals of a Capuchin friar, and his prosperity for monkish poverty.

News & Articles

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  That afternoon in 1963, I was in the cellar of a Catholic seminary, a crenellated Gothic building in Washington, D.C. I was seated in the ad-hoc barber’s chair, while an untrained yet officially designated classmate was hacking at my hair, a normal part of the monkish life. Suddenly, one of our fellow seminarians stormed through the doorway...
  Nov. 17, 2013 - Observer-Reporter
• JFK conspiracy theories sent America in a poisonous direction
  That afternoon in 1963, I was in the cellar of a Catholic seminary, a crenellated Gothic building in Washington, D.C. I was seated in the ad-hoc barber’s chair, while an untrained yet officially designated classmate was hacking at my hair, a normal part of the monkish life. Suddenly, one of our fellow seminarians stormed through...
  Nov. 17, 2013 - Observer-Reporter

Quotes

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• Thomas Jefferson in Houston Chronicle
  Thomas Jefferson called on people to "burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves."
• Pope Leo X in La Stampa
  Printing meant that what Leo X called "a little monkish squabble" in Wittenberg in 1517 turn into the number one story on Google.
• Tim Booth in Independent
  Booth says now: "In many ways, we were a very strange band, austere and monkish, with a great belief in our music but none whatsoever in the industry. If offers came along, we turned them down summarily: front covers, photo shoots, anything that...