单词 | monkhood |
释义 | monkhoodn. The state or profession of a monk; the monastic life, monasticism; monks collectively. (In quot. 1740 apparently punningly.) ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > monasticism > [noun] > monastic life or condition monkhoodeOE religiona1200 habitc1290 monkheada1400 religiosityc1443 monkery?1536 monachism?1570 monkship1620 cowl1653 monkism1659 monkishnessa1729 the cloister1781 monasticism1795 monkliness1887 eOE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Tanner) v. xiii. 434 Þæt he in ðæt gemyndgade mynster mid his bene inngedon wæs & inn munuchade bescoren. OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 2nd Ser. (Cambr. Gg.3.28) ix. 77 Micel menigu ægðer ge preosthades ge munuchades menn. lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) (Peterborough contin.) anno 1123 Ða spræcon ða biscopas hem betwenan, and sæden þæt hi næfre mare ne wolden hafen munechades man to ercebiscop ofer hem. c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 460 The grete dukis of the chirche..ordeyneden the religioun of monkehode to be had and vsid in the chirche. 1687 F. Atterbury Answer Considerations Spirit Luther 25 He had left off his Monkhood too. 1740 H. Walpole Epist. from Florence 189 Nor the dark cloister's mystick rites display, Whence num'rous brawny Monkhoods waste away. 1839 H. W. Longfellow Hyperion I. i. vii. 67 I think the name of Martin Luther, the monk of Wittemberg, alone sufficient to redeem all monkhood from the reproach of laziness. 1854 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity II. iv. vii. 148 Image worship in the mass of the people, of the whole monkhood. 1887 H. C. Lea Hist. Inquisition Middle Ages I. vi. 252 The council had forbidden the formation of new orders of monkhood. 1968 E. Cleaver Soul on Ice i. iii. 33 I could not believe in his passionate defense of monkhood. 1991 Dædalus Summer 229 Buddhism recognized a clear distinction between the highly literate monkhood and the ordinary laity involved in the world. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.eOE |
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