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What is a monkery?

What is a monkery? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (pejorative) the practices of monks; the way of life, behavior, etc. characteristic of monks; monastic life
  2. (pejorative) monasticism
  3. (pejorative) a monastery
  4. (dated, collectively) monks, considered as a group. (cf clergy, laity)
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Fructuosus, who died about 665, displayed when a mere child a genius for monkery.
One who has read of the vestal virgins of old will recognize at once where monkery originated.
Unquestionably the monkery of the middle ages was better ordered than that of the Nicene.
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?
But who can reckon on the honesty of a woman where bribery and monkery reign!
Thus in the early days the sect defied their Prophet's condemnation of monkery by building an abode for members of the order.

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