All 20 Uses
monk
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Les Miserables
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- In her youth, in '93, she had married a monk who had fled from his cloister in a red cap, and passed from the Bernardines to the Jacobins.†
Chpt 1.5 *
- She was dry, rough, peevish, sharp, captious, almost venomous; all this in memory of her monk, whose widow she was, and who had ruled over her masterfully and bent her to his will.†
Chpt 1.5
- At the Restoration she had turned bigot, and that with so much energy that the priests had forgiven her her monk.†
Chpt 1.5
- So the monk's widow was good for something.†
Chpt 1.5
- If any physiognomist who had been familiar with Javert, and who had made a lengthy study of this savage in the service of civilization, this singular composite of the Roman, the Spartan, the monk, and the corporal, this spy who was incapable of a lie, this unspotted police agent—if any physiognomist had known his secret and long-cherished aversion for M. Madeleine, his conflict with the mayor on the subject of Fantine, and had examined Javert at that moment, he would have said to himself, "What has taken place?"†
Chpt 1.6
- The transition from a drover to a Carmelite is not in the least violent; the one turns into the other without much effort; the fund of ignorance common to the village and the cloister is a preparation ready at hand, and places the boor at once on the same footing as the monk: a little more amplitude in the smock, and it becomes a frock.†
Chpt 1.7
- At least, if the tradition is to be believed, and in particular the two enigmatical lines in barbarous Latin, which an evil Norman monk, a bit of a sorcerer, named Tryphon has left on this subject.†
Chpt 2.2
- monks mingled with our troops;†
Chpt 2.2monks = male members of a religious order living together typically under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience
- Le Petit-Picpus, which, moreover, hardly ever had any existence, and never was more than the outline of a quarter, had nearly the monkish aspect of a Spanish town.†
Chpt 2.5monkish = having the characteristics of a monk (often inclined toward self-denial)
- These Bernardines were attached, in consequence, not to Clairvaux, like the Bernardine monks, but to Citeaux, like the Benedictine monks.†
Chpt 2.6monks = male members of a religious order living together typically under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience
- These Bernardines were attached, in consequence, not to Clairvaux, like the Bernardine monks, but to Citeaux, like the Benedictine monks.†
Chpt 2.6
- She was learned, erudite, wise, competent, curiously proficient in history, crammed with Latin, stuffed with Greek, full of Hebrew, and more of a Benedictine monk than a Benedictine nun.†
Chpt 2.6
- She said that in her youth the Bernardine monks were every whit as good as the mousquetaires.†
Chpt 2.6monks = male members of a religious order living together typically under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience
- We cannot think without affright of those lands where fakirs, bonzes, santons, Greek monks, marabouts, talapoins, and dervishes multiply even like swarms of vermin.†
Chpt 2.7
- He began at Citeaux, to end in Clairvaux; he was ordained abbot by the bishop of Chalon-sur-Saone, Guillaume de Champeaux; he had seven hundred novices, and founded a hundred and sixty monasteries; he overthrew Abeilard at the council of Sens in 1140, and Pierre de Bruys and Henry his disciple, and another sort of erring spirits who were called the Apostolics; he confounded Arnauld de Brescia, darted lightning at the monk Raoul, the murderer of the Jews, dominated the council of Reims in 1148, caused the condemnation of Gilbert de Porea, Bishop of Poitiers, caused the condemnation of Eon de l'Etoile, arranged the disputes of princes, enlightened King Louis the Young, advised Pope Eugene III.†
Chpt 2.8
- If we are to credit the monk Austin Castillejo, this was the means employed by Charles the Fifth, desirous of seeing the Plombes for the last time after his abdication.†
Chpt 2.8
- They were, what the subordinate monks who accompany monks are called, bini.†
Chpt 4.12monks = male members of a religious order living together typically under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience
- They were, what the subordinate monks who accompany monks are called, bini.†
Chpt 4.12
- "Don't let's talk of monks," interrupted Grantaire, "it makes one want to scratch one's self."†
Chpt 4.12
- You have a barbarian, the monk, and a savage, the lazzarone.†
Chpt 5.9
Definitions:
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(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)