cenobite

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And though the cenobite realises his personality, it is often an impoverished personality that he so realises. 

From The Soul of Man under Socialism by Wilde, Oscar

He pushed his quarrels to the death, yet prayed The saints as fervently on bended knees As ever shaven cenobite.

From Poems by Bryant, William Cullen

And my soul is a sepulchre where I, Ill cenobite, have spent eternity: On the vile cloister walls no pictures rise.

From The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker by Baudelaire, Charles

Her neatness and the exquisite care she took of her person had in them little of the cenobite.

From Pepita Ximenez by Valera, Juan

About the close of the fourth century the cenobite system was introduced into Europe, and in an astonishingly short space of time spread throughout all the western countries where Christianity had gained a foothold.

From General History for Colleges and High Schools by Myers, Philip Van Ness