All 4 Uses of
monk
in
Dubliners
- The table then spoke of Mount Melleray, how bracing the air was down there, how hospitable the monks were and how they never asked for a penny-piece from their guests.†
Chpt 15
- He was astonished to hear that the monks never spoke, got up at two in the morning and slept in their coffins.†
Chpt 15 *
- Freddy Malins explained to him, as best he could, that the monks were trying to make up for the sins committed by all the sinners in the outside world.†
Chpt 15
- As the subject had grown lugubrious it was buried in a silence of the table during which Mrs. Malins could be heard saying to her neighbour in an indistinct undertone: "They are very good men, the monks, very pious men."†
Chpt 15
Definition:
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(monk) a male member of a religious order typically living under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience