cenobite

Definitions

1. A new or recent member of a Greek monastic religious order; a caloyer.
2. A monk who lives in a religious community, rather than in solitude.
3. A torturous demon creature made famous by the Hellraiser series.

Equivalents

Examples

“Lamprecht knew very well how the war was going and was perfunctory in his rounding up of Jews and cenobites.”

“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. He is a part of no whole, a freak without a place⟳.”

CEFR level