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monastic

/mə'næstɪk/

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adjective
of communal life sequestered from the world under religious vows
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cloistered cloistral conventual monastical unworldly
noun
a male religious living in a cloister and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work
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monk

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religious

Definition that contains monastic

eremitism monasticism characterized by solitude in which the social dimension of life is sacrificed to the primacy of religious experience