All 5 Uses of
monk
in
Candide
- 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 28monks = male members of a religious order living together typically under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience
Definition:
a male member of a religious order typically living under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience