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Definition
a male member of a religious order typically living under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience
- Italian monks who became enamoured of certain aunts would return to Italy to discard their robes and return to find the women already married.p. 120.5
- It was on his travels by road that my father waged war with a certain Sammy Dias Bandaranaike, a close relative of the eventual Prime Minister of Ceylon who was assassinated by a Buddhist monk.p. 151.2
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