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monkhood|ˈmʌŋkhʊd|
[f. monk n.1 + -hood.]
The state, condition, or profession of a monk; the monastic life, monasticism. Also, monks collectively. So † monkhede [-head].
a900tr. Bæda's Hist. v. xiii. [xii.] (1890) 434 Þæt he in ðæt ᵹemyndᵹade mynster mid his bene innᵹedon wæs & inn munuchade bescoren. c1000ælfric Hom. (Th.) II. 126 æᵹðer ᵹe preosthades ᵹe munuchades menn. 1303R. Brunne Handl. Synne 201 Þat he forsake..God of heuene and hys bapteme And alle þe godenesse of hys munkhede. c1449Pecock Repr. iv. vii. 460 Dynys..makith mensioun that the grete dukis of the chirche..ordeyneden the religioun of monkehode to be had and vsid in the chirche. c1450St. Cuthbert (Surtees) 6410 He left all and to monkhede he pas. 1687Atterbury Answ. Consid. Spirit Luther 25 He had left off his Monkhood too. 1740Hor. Walpole Ep. fr. Florence 189 Nor the dark cloister's mystick rites display, Whence num'rous brawny Monkhoods waste away. 1839Longfellow Hyperion i. vii. (1853) 47, I think the name of Martin Luther, the monk of Wittemburg, alone sufficient to redeem all monkhood from the reproach of laziness. 1854Milman Lat. Chr. iv. vii. (1864) II. 344 Image worship in the mass of the people, of the whole monkhood. 1888H. C. Lea Hist. Inquis. I. 252 The council had forbidden the formation of new orders of monkhood. |