All 3 Uses of
monk
in
Man And Superman
- The prototypic Don Juan, invented early in the XVI century by a Spanish monk, was presented, according to the ideas of that time, as the enemy of God, the approach of whose vengeance is felt throughout the drama, growing in menace from minute to minute.†
Chpt Ded. *
- The moral is a monkish one: repent and reform now; for to-morrow it may be too late.†
Chpt Ded.
- Dickens, without the excuse of having to manufacture motives for Hamlets and Macbeths, superfluously punt his crew down the stream of his monthly parts by mechanical devices which I leave you to describe, my own memory being quite baffled by the simplest question as to Monks in Oliver Twist, or the long lost parentage of Smike, or the relations between the Dorrit and Clennam families so inopportunely discovered by Monsieur Rigaud Blandois.†
Chpt Ded.
Definition:
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(monk) a male member of a religious order typically living under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience