Monk vs Pries - What's the difference?
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A male member of a monastic order who has devoted his life for religious service.
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in earlier usage, an eremite or hermit devoted to solitude, as opposed to a cenobite, who lived communally.
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, title=The Dust of Conflict
, chapter=20 (slang) A male who leads an isolated life; a loner, a hermit.
(slang) An unmarried man who does not have sexual relationships.
(slang) A judge.
(printing) A blotch or spot of ink on a printed page, caused by the ink not being properly distributed; distinguished from a friar, or white spot caused by a deficiency of ink.
A piece of tinder made of agaric, used in firing the powder hose or train of a mine.
A South American monkey (.
The (European bullfinch).
(Webster 1913)
(pry)
To look where one is not welcome; to be nosey.
To look closely and curiously at.
* Shakespeare
The act of prying
An excessively inquisitive person
A lever.
Leverage.
To use leverage to open or widen. (See also prise and prize.)
As a noun monk
is a male member of a monastic order who has devoted his life for religious service.As a verb pries is
third-person singular of pry.monk
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(wikipedia monk)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Tony's face expressed relief, and Nettie sat silent for a moment until the vicar said “It was a generous impulse, but it may have been a momentary one, while in the case of monk and crusader there must have been a sustaining purpose, and possibly a great abnegation, a leaving of lands and possessions.”}}
Synonyms
* See alsoSee also
* abbey * abbot * brother * cloister * convent * friar * hermit * nun * priest * sister ----pries
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Verb
(head)Anagrams
* ----pry
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) pryen, . More at (l).Verb
(en-verb)- Watch thou and wake when others be asleep, / To pry into the secrets of the state.
