"monkship" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1853, Pierce Connelly, The Madiai: a Letter to the Right Hon. the Earl of Aberdeen, Etc",
          "text": "If any one saith that matrimony contracted but not consummated is not dissolved by the solemn profession of religion (monkship or nunship) of one of the parties, let him be anathema.",
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          "ref": "2002, Krishna Dutta, Walking from the gallows",
          "text": "On the other hand, the phoongyees or the monks depending on their years of monkship and status with, were embalmed and kept much longer.",
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        "The position or role of a monk."
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          "ref": "1853, Pierce Connelly, The Madiai: a Letter to the Right Hon. the Earl of Aberdeen, Etc",
          "text": "If any one saith that matrimony contracted but not consummated is not dissolved by the solemn profession of religion (monkship or nunship) of one of the parties, let him be anathema.",
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