Definition of "monstre" []

• Obsolete form of monster. (noun)

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• "At the desertes of Egyptes was a worthi man, that was an holy heremyte; and there mette with hym a monstre, (that is to seyne, a monstre is a thing difformed azen kynde both of man or of best or of ony thing elles: and that is cleped a monstre)."
• "When he was with them, he believed in them, the ci-devant "monstre"; he never contradicted them, and he made them shine."
• "It would interesting to know what the "monstre sacré", Fr. Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, OP, thought of De Lubac's "rehabilitation?""