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Recent Examples of monastic
Bernd Roeck
june 16, Literary Hub, 16 June 2025
The Order of Cistercians was part of the Roman Catholic monastic order founded in 1098.
—Lauren Liebhaber, Miami Herald, 22 May 2025
Koh Ewe, TIME, 13 May 2024
Over the past 2,000 years, Buddhist teachings have encountered distortions and alterations due to mistranslation and misinterpretation of Buddha-dharma by Buddhist patriarchs, eminent monastics, and Buddhist scholars.
—Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 25 July 2023
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Adjective
Nevertheless, the small band of monastic scribes did manage to preserve and pass on a great deal of ancient literature.
—Bernd Roeck
june 16, Literary Hub, 16 June 2025
The Order of Cistercians was part of the Roman Catholic monastic order founded in 1098.
—Lauren Liebhaber, Miami Herald, 22 May 2025
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Buddhist organizations, whose members are also known to skew older, have been trying to connect with younger people by updating the image of monastics, usually known for their no-nonsense asceticism.
—Koh Ewe, TIME, 13 May 2024
Over the past 2,000 years, Buddhist teachings have encountered distortions and alterations due to mistranslation and misinterpretation of Buddha-dharma by Buddhist patriarchs, eminent monastics, and Buddhist scholars.
—Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 25 July 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for monastic
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Quarantine by Jim Crace This 1997 novel follows Jesus during his 40-day ascetic retreat to a desert cave.—
Mia Barzilay Freund,
Vogue,
7 July 2025
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Martin lived an ascetic and solitary life, and often denounced overly cerebral art.—
Melissa Febos,
The Atlantic,
9 June 2025
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But degraded conventual forces could drive Putin to other means of exerting force.—
Matt Seyler,
ABC News,
10 May 2022
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The Rev. Brad Heckathorne, a Conventual Franciscan friar, performed the ceremony at the chapel at Duke University.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
23 Apr. 2017
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Eric-the-junkie had intoned to his even-then-passé parents, old-schoolers bent on building systems that would stick, that the monks were celebrating the ephemeral beauty of physical existence.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
9 July 2025
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Last month, in a rare meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, the Tibetan monk reaffirmed his allegiance to the rule of the Communist Party and pledged to make his religion more Chinese – a tenet of Xi’s policy on religion.—
Simone McCarthy,
CNN Money,
3 July 2025
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Obama has retreated into monkish silence, broken only for special occasions such as celebrity deaths and the recording of Bruce Springsteen podcasts.—
Isaac Chotiner,
The New Yorker,
17 July 2024
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Cillian Murphy is not sitting at home in monkish penury.—
Vulture,
Vulture,
3 Feb. 2024
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In response, a new form of religious life emerged: the mendicant friars.—
Joanne M. Pierce,
The Conversation,
27 May 2025
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The first mendicant orders, like the Franciscans and Dominicans, received papal approval in the early 13th century.—
Joanne M. Pierce,
The Conversation,
27 May 2025
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The Discalced Carmelite Fathers Monastery in Munster was founded in 1952 by a group of Polish Discalced Carmelite friars who came to America after World War II to devote themselves to the pastoral care of their countrymen.—
Philip Potempa,
Chicago Tribune,
11 July 2025
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Today, there are some 2,800 Augustinian friars in almost 50 countries worldwide.—
Joanne M. Pierce,
The Conversation,
27 May 2025
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The complaint says he’s previously fought for the legal right to use sacramental plant medicines religiously.—
Julia Marnin,
Sacbee.com,
3 June 2025
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Anand is a neurologist and the author of The Mind Electric, out in June 2025 Within the walls of a hospital, privacy is sacred—the intimate details of someone’s body and illness are meant to be as carefully guarded, as quietly delivered, as a sacramental confession.—
Pria Anand,
TIME,
18 Feb. 2025
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The end result was a new brand of ecclesiastics and lay Catholics who felt comfortable detaching themselves from Franco’s regime, or even fighting it head-on in a variety of forums, including student movements, intellectual circles, unions, political parties, and the media.—
Victor Pérez-Díaz,
Foreign Affairs,
6 Dec. 2013
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Of all the precious goods accumulated by the rulers and ecclesiastics of late medieval Ethiopia, the most charged of all were books.—
Peter Brown,
The New York Review of Books,
24 Sep. 2020
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“Monastic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monastic. Accessed 30 Jul. 2025.
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