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Coenobite

noun
1.
A member of a religious order living in common.  Synonym: cenobite.





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... the prior take his leave, and Basil pondered much on what he had heard. It was a new light to him, for, as his instructor suspected, he shared the common view of coenobite aims, and still but imperfectly understood the law of Benedict. All at once the life of this cloister appeared before him in a wider and nobler aspect. In the silent monks bent over their desks he saw much more than ...
— Veranilda • George Gissing


Words linked to "Coenobite" :   religious, eremite, coenobitical, coenobitic


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