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How to use monkery in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word monkery? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
In other words, the measure of excellence in morals lies midway between licence and monkery.
And then your father followed you...and the great house on the hill went for a Trappist monkery.
Unquestionably the monkery of the middle ages was better ordered than that of the Nicene.
The Holy Qur'ân does not endorse monkery for yet another reason: Some moral qualities are left unhewn if one does not become a part of the society.
Examples from Classical Literature
Fructuosus, who died about 665, displayed when a mere child a genius for monkery.
But who can reckon on the honesty of a woman where bribery and monkery reign!
One who has read of the vestal virgins of old will recognize at once where monkery originated.
Thus in the early days the sect defied their Prophet's condemnation of monkery by building an abode for members of the order.
Have you not seen enough of monkery this afternoon, that you must try still to make that poor girl even such a one as yourselves?
Down this slope it was hurled headlong by the establishment of monkery.
If ever monk had got to heaven by monkery, I had been that monk.
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