monkship

plural monkships

1. The position or role of a monk.

   On the other hand, the phoongyees or the monks depending on their years of monkship and status with, were embalmed and kept much longer.

   2002, Krishna Dutta, Walking from the gallows

   1 more example

   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.

   1853, Pierce Connelly, The Madiai: a Letter to the Right Hon. the Earl of Aberdeen, Etc