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German
Etymology
Mönch + -isch
Pronunciation
Adjective
mönchisch (strong nominative masculine singular mönchischer, comparative mönchischer, superlative am mönchischsten)
- monkish
1930, Paul Joachimsen, “Der Humanismus und die Entwicklung des deutschen Geistes”, in Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte, 8, page 439:Aber sie haben die mönchischen Ideale: die Abgeschiedenheit von der Welt – alle drei haben wiederholt den Plan erwogen, sich in eine Schwarzwaldeinsiedelei zurückzuziehen – und daneben den Missionsdrang des Wirkens auf die Welt.- But they have the monkish ideals: the seclusion from the world – all three have repeatedly considered the plan to retreat into a hermitage in the Black Forest – and besides the missionary urge for the acting on the world.
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