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noun

Monkery n. (pl. monkeries)

The life of monks; monastic life; monastic usage or customs; now usually applied by way of reproach. "Miters, and wretched dead mediaeval monkeries."

A collective body of monks. (Obs.) "Though he have a whole monkery to sing for him."

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Etymology of 'Monkery'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Monkery" Quotes from Famous Books

... performed in the faith and the knowledge of God. Here Paul rejects all service not performed in faith as entirely unreasonable, even if rendered by the body and in outward act, and having the appearance of great holiness and spiritual life. Such have been the works, offerings, monkery and stringent life of the Papists, performed without the knowledge of God—having no command of God—and without spirit and heart. They have thought that so long as the works were performed they must be pleasing to God, independent of their faith. Such was also the service of the Jews in ...

— Epistle Sermons, Vol. II - Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost • Martin Luther

... among the secrets of his career, as also is the occasion of his being expelled from the university; if that occasion is not to be found in some of the burlesques of religion which he had learned amongst the fashionable infidels of the Continent, similar to those enacted by Wilkes in his infamous monkery. But every thing in his career equally exhibits the times. At an age when he was fit for nothing else, he was considered fit to receive the salary of a sinecure; and, at twenty-one, he was appointed ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 • Various