MONASTIC in a Sentence

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1. Withdrawing from the world, Thomas Merton joined a contemplative religious order and adopted the monastic life.
2. The monastic orders gladly accept this heavy peasant earthenware, which is easily fashioned into a Capuchin or an Ursuline.

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 Meanings and Examples of MONASTIC
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monastic
 a.  related to monks or monasteries; removed from worldly concerns
Classic Sentence:
1  The monastic orders gladly accept this heavy peasant earthenware, which is easily fashioned into a Capuchin or an Ursuline.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—SISTER SIMPLICE
2  The monastic regime, good at the beginning of civilization, useful in the reduction of the brutal by the spiritual, is bad when peoples have reached their manhood.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT
Example Sentence:
1  The wealthy, self-indulgent young man felt oddly drawn to the strict, ascetic life led by members of some monastic orders.
2  Withdrawing from the world, Thomas Merton joined a contemplative religious order and adopted the monastic life.