monastery has definitions from the field of housing
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[ noun ] (housing) the residence of a religious community

Used in print

(J. H. Hexter, "Thomas More: On the Margins...)

We find it in that `` common way_of_life pleasing to Christ and still in_use among the truest societies of Christians '' , that_is , the better monasteries which made it easier to convert the Utopians to Christianity .

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