All 4 Uses of
monastery
in
Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky
- The old woman had already made her will, and Lizaveta knew of it, and by this will she would not get a farthing; nothing but the movables, chairs and so on; all the money was left to a monastery in the province of N—, that prayers might be said for her in perpetuity.†
Chpt 1.6
- A hundred thousand good deeds could be done and helped, on that old woman's money which will be buried in a monastery!†
Chpt 1.6 *
- Last year he persuaded us that he was going into a monastery: he stuck to it for two months.†
Chpt 3.5
- Of all the lice I picked out the most useless one and proposed to take from her only as much as I needed for the first step, no more nor less (so the rest would have gone to a monastery, according to her will, ha-ha!)†
Chpt 3.6
Definition:
the residence of a religious community