All 5 Uses

monk
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Candide
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He was a quarter Spaniard, born of a mongrel in Tucuman; he had been singing-boy, sacristan, sailor, monk, pedlar, soldier, and lackey.†
Chpt 14
have you no monks who teach, who dispute, who govern, who cabal, and who burn people that are not of their opinion?†
Chpt 18 *

monks = male members of a religious order living together typically under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience
"We must be mad, indeed, if that were the case," said the old man; "here we are all of one opinion, and we know not what you mean by monks."†
Chpt 18
sir, if you could only imagine what it is to be obliged to caress indifferently an old merchant, a lawyer, a monk, a gondolier, an abbe, to be exposed to abuse and insults; to be often reduced to borrowing a petticoat, only to go and have it raised by a disagreeable man; to be robbed by one of what one has earned from another; to be subject to the extortions of the officers of justice; and to have in prospect only a frightful old age, a hospital, and a dung-hill; you would conclude that I am one of the most unhappy creatures in the world.†
Chpt 24
On board this galley there were four young men from Marseilles, five Neapolitan priests, and two monks from Corfu, who told us similar adventures happened daily.†
Chpt 28

monks = male members of a religious order living together typically under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience

Definitions:

(1) (monk)
a male member of a religious order typically living under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)