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monkly, a. Now rare.|ˈmʌŋklɪ|
[f. monk n.1 + -ly1.]
Of or pertaining to a monk or monks; monastic.
a900tr. Bæda's Hist. v. xix. title (Schipper) 652 Ðætte Cynred Mercna cyning & Offa Eastseaxna cyning on munuclicum hadum to Rome becom. c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xviii. (Egipciane) 29 For sa ennornyt þat man was in monklyke vorke, vord, & dede,..þat [etc.]. 1532More Confut. Tindale Wks. 397/2 As Otho did in Almain which ranne oute of the charterhouse, &..toke a wyfe for sobrenes and chastisyng of hys munkelye membres. 1548G. Wishart tr. Swiss Conf. Fayth in Wodrow Soc. Misc. (1844) 22 We reject and refuse this monckely chastite. 1652Earl of Monmouth tr. Bentivoglio's Hist. Relat. 73 But to return to the Monkly Order. 1893Month Dec. 574 No longer monkly garbs, but dainty muslins or frilled confections, flit hither and thither.
Hence ˈmonkliness.
1887I. Taylor in Pall Mall G. 8 Oct. 11/2 Islam..replaced monkliness by manliness. |