monkery

noun4

1. •
   (offensive, old-fashioned) The practices of monks; the way of life, behavior, etc. characteristic of monks; monastic life.
2. •
   (offensive, old-fashioned) Monasticism.
3. •
   (old-fashioned) Monks, considered as a group. (Compare clergy, laity.)

   • Unquestionably the monkery of the middle ages was better ordered than that of the Nicene. — 1840
4. •
   (offensive, old-fashioned) A monastery.