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Definition of Monkishly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Monkishly
Literary usage of Monkishly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Metropolitan (1836)
"Miserably and monkishly educated as you have been—" " Ardent!" said my mother,
for I had been speaking in Spanish. " Interrupt me not, lady. ..."
2. New Testament Illustrations: Comprising Choice Selections, Anecdotes by William Basil Jones (1875)
"Such a faith, sO monkishly bound, needs a new deliverance ! Now, when you find
yourself up in arms in defense of your creed, pause a moment, and consider ..."
3. The Christian Examiner (1836)
"... in tones sometimes wildly fanatical, sometimes nauseously sweet, sometimes
unrestrainedly fantastic, sometimes monkishly dark: from De Valenti, ..."
4. The Elements of Drawing in Three Letters to Beginners by John Ruskin (1883)
"... grey should stand monkishly aloof in the midst of them You may melt your
crimson into purple, your purple into blue, and your blue into green, ..."
5. The Christian Examiner and General Review edited by Francis Jenks, James Walker, Francis William Pitt Greenwood, William Ware (1836)
"... in tones sometimes wildly fanatical, sometimes nauseously sweet, sometimes
unrestrainedly fantastic, sometimes monkishly dark: from De Valenti, ..."
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