unmonasticadj.
/(ˌ)ʌnməˈnastɪk/, U.S. /ˌənməˈnæstɪk/ Not typical of or appropriate to a monastic way of life; lacking solemnity or austerity.
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1828 Atlas 16 Mar. 171/1 Several of the monks, dressed in what looked like long dark-coloured great coats, with round hats, which struck us as unmonastic.
1849 I. Taylor Loyola i. vii. 151 Their unmonastic habit..afforded ground enough for such imputations.
1869 H. F. Tozer Res. Highlands of Turkey I. 93 My tumbler..was engraved with most unmonastic Cupids.
1922 I. Goldberg Brazilian Lit. i. iv. 87 He, too, sought..solace in the monastery, which he entered at the unmonastic age of twenty.
1973 Catholic Hist. Rev. 58 560 The order's response to such unmonastic activity was feeble.
2007 Cambr. Opera Jrnl. 19 167 An utterly unmonastic spirit of creative euphoria fuelled by smuggled alcohol.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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