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单词 monkish
释义 monk·ish
\ˈməŋkish, -kēsh\ adjective
1. : of or relating to monks : monastic
 < the monkish church … often included three bays of the nave — E.H.Short >
2. : characteristic of or befitting monks
 < the poem is thoroughly medieval and monkish in conception — A.E.Bailey >
 < brooding and moiling in monkish seclusion — A.M.Schlesinger b.1888 >
3.
 a. : being or resembling a monk
  < working with much of the patient thoroughness of his monkish predecessors — G.W.Eve >
  : ascetic
  < I esteem even more a man who puts poverty and a shelf of books above profiteering and evenings of jazz; I am naturally monkish — H.L.Mencken >
 b. : resembling that of or attributed to a monk or having features attributed to monasticism
  < a monkish robe >
  < it is monkish, parsimonious, and timid to despise the lavish and complex beauty of life — D.C.Peattie >
4. : made or used by monks
 < flesh begins to appear on the bones of these monkish annals — B.R.Redman >
 < monkish Latin >
monk·ish·ly adverb
monk·ish·ness noun -es
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