Crossword-Solution: CENOBITE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Cenobite | n. | One of a religious order, dwelling in a convent, or a community, in opposition to an anchoret, or hermit, who lives in solitude. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| CENOBITE | anagram | BENICETO |
We have 13 clues for the answer “CENOBITE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| A monk. | 1 answer |
| Member of a monastic order. | 1 answer |
| Monk or nun | 1 answer |
| Monk or other member of a communal order | 1 answer |
| a member of a religious order living in common | 1 answer |
| A religious. | 2 answers |
| Convent inhabitant. | 2 answers |
| Dweller in a monastery. | 2 answers |
| Convent dweller | 11 answers |
| CLOISTERED person | 12 answers |
| Monk | 15 answers |
| Hermit | 16 answers |
| Monastic | 19 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with CENOBITE (5)
And though the cenobite realises his personality, it is often an impoverished personality that he so realises.
Brother Paphnutius, I am but a miserable sinner, but I have found, in my long life, that the cenobite has no foe worse than sadness.
Only, out of regard for the established virtue of Solomon, he had consented to break bread with the fisherman, and went to take meals with him with the regularity of a cenobite.
The novelist did his utmost, continues Monsieur de Lovenjoul, to foster the tradition of his hermit-like conduct; and to all the jealous women with whom he entertained friendly relations he asserted that his morals were as spotless as those of a cenobite.
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.
Quotes with CENOBITE (3)
To deprive a gregarious creature of companionship is to maim it, to outrage its nature. The prisoner and the cenobite are aware that the herd exists beyond their exile; they are an aspect of it. But when the herd no longer exists, there is, for the herd creature, no longer entity, a part of no whole; a freak without a place. If he cannot hold on to his reason, then he is lost indeed; most utterly, most fearfully lost, so that he becomes no more than the twitch in the limb of a corpse.
The life of the cenobite is a human problem. When we speak of convents, those seats of error but innocence, of mistaken views but good intentions, of ignorance but devotion, of torment but martyrdom, we must nearly always say yes or no... The monastery is a renunciation. Self-sacrifice, even when misdirected, is still self-sacrifice. To assume as duty a strict error has its peculiar grandeur.
The winged word. The mercurial word. The word that is both moth and lamp. The word that is itself and more. the associative word light with meanings. The word not netted by meaning. The exact word wide. The word not whore nor cenobite. The word unlied.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Crossroads, NYT, WSJ.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (1953–2005).