monkish in the Oxford-Paravia Italian Dictionary

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How could men of liberal sense, ripe scholarship in the world, and capacious philosophical and convivial understandings -- how could they suffer themselves to be imposed upon by such monkish fables?
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His birth was seen as miraculous; his monkish father had despaired of having a male heir after three wives.
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It is almost monkish in its aesthetic asceticism.
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It was a monkish place of stillness and retreat.
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There is a real tension between his excessive happiness and his monkish lifestyle.
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And inside there's a simple, almost monkish hotel where perfectly prepared garden produce and carefully chosen local wines are the answer to a traveller's prayer.
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Monkish humour might have insisted that this smoky piece accompany the one part of the ceremony for which the burning of incense was prescribed.
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But while his kind of devotion to the seemingly simple is often characterised as monkish, he talks, in fact, of the sensuality of material, the luxury of craftsmanship.
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Looks like a monkish type of person, maybe?
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But, to stretch the religious metaphor, at least it isn't conditional on monkish abstinence.
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