semimonastic

As a result the order, founded as a semimonastic crusading society, eventually became a military and commercial corporation of great wealth and selfish aims and a serious competitor of the very towns it had founded.

1. The Teutonic Knights 2001

Let me first, however, do Professor Andrews the justice of explaining that the Cambridge Brotherhood is a semimonastic fraternity of the

A Tour of the Missions Observations and Conclusions Augustus Hopkins Strong 1878

It had not been accomplished in this semimonastic life, but the efforts toward it had their influence, and, you may judge by the quality of its founders, had never died.

The Development of Embroidery in America Candace Wheeler 1875

It was a strictly religious, semimonastic group of single men and single women, whose hearts were filled with zeal for mission work.

The Development of Embroidery in America Candace Wheeler 1875

Sunday Book Review cover: Walter Kirn on How Fiction Works by James Wood: The heroes of this great artistic labor tend to be semimonastic intro­verts who, like Wood’s beloved Henry James and Gustave Flaubert, toil with the doors shut and locked, in soundproof splendid isolation, attentive to the subtle frictions among nouns and adjectival phrases ....

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