monkish in the Oxford Spanish Dictionary

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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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There is a real tension between his excessive happiness and his monkish lifestyle.
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Tall and bald with a hearty laugh, the retired interior designer is neither monkish nor zealous.
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There was, as there remains, something monkish about his submission to austere forms and procedures.
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It is fast, finger-burning work, and if you fail to keep up you soon find that a stern look is evidently not considered outside the monkish calling.
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Before, we associated the ascetic with monkish values, the valorisation of chastity, a life of deprivation.
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Because while they may train like professional athletes, and lead the ascetic, monkish lifestyle of professionals, these men are amateurs.
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It is almost monkish in its aesthetic asceticism.
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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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Celibacy, fasting, penance, mortification, self-denial, humility, silence, solitude and the whole train of monkish virtues...
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