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  • "But God's will be done," the monk said.  (source)
  • What looked like a fat little monk was saying: "Forgive and forget, I say, we ought to give him a second chance —"  (source)
  • He is smiling in the picture, and there is no mistaking the look in his eyes: Chris McCandless was at peace, serene as a monk gone to God.  (source)
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  • I will visit Friar Lawrence in his monk's cell, His help to ask and my good fortune to tell.  (source)
    monk = a male member of a religious order
  • He called out to his fellow monks, 'Come quickly: I am tasting the stars.'  (source)
    monks = male members of a religious order living together
  • His room was austere, almost monkish.†  (source)
    monkish = having the characteristics of a monk (often inclined toward self-denial)
    standard suffix: Adding the suffix "-ish" to monk means having the characteristics of a monk. This is the same pattern you see in words like childish and foolish.
  • He was looking at the man, with on his face an expression a little placative and baffled though not alarmed, watching the man's inscrutable and monklike face.†  (source)
  • Other times we walked slightly apart, Murray's hands clasped behind his back, Gladney's folded monkishly at the abdomen, a somewhat worried touch.†  (source)
    monkishly = in a manner like a "monk"
    editor's notes: Adding "-ishly" to monk means "in a manner with the characteristics of a monk." This is the same pattern you see in words like childishly and foolishly.
  • Astonished, as if he had been the object of a magic spell, the monk looked into the ferryman's eyes.  (source)
    monk = a male member of a religious order
  • The monks bowed and moved out of the pagoda into the bright morning sunlight.  (source)
    monks = male members of a religious order typically under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience
  • I look around, glimpsing the simple, almost monkish furnishings of a dining room and sit ting room before the slaver grabs a fistful of my hair and pulls on it so hard I think my neck will break.†  (source)
    monkish = having the characteristics of a monk (often inclined toward self-denial)
  • Jace does like things neat," Clary said, thinking of his monklike room at the Institute.†  (source)
  • He lived in a cheerless flat, he said; he said he was practically a monk.†  (source)
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