33
monk(noun, religious, clergy, minister, god)
7
brother(noun, religious, clergy, monastic)
7
mendicant(noun, clergy, member of a religious order)
6
abbot(noun, religious, clergy, prior, monastic)
6
pilgrim(noun, clergy, member of a religious order)
5
holy man(noun, expression, religious, minister, monastic)
5
prior(noun, religious, clergy, monastic, predecessor)
4
cenobite(noun, religious, clergy, monastic, nun)
4
lay brother(expression, idiom, clergy)
4
monastic(noun, religious)
4
priest(noun, religious, clergy, minister, monastic)
4
religious(noun, monastic, nun)
3
beadsman
3
clergyman(noun, clergy)
3
hermit(noun, religious, monastic, pokey, self-observer)
2
conventual
2
palmer(noun, clergy)
2
pillarist
2
preacher(noun, clergy)
2
stylite
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