An alternate or archaic spelling of cenobium; a monastic community or religious retreat.
From cenobium with variant spelling conventions common in medieval English. Less common than cenobium but appears in older texts.
Cenoby is basically the English shorthand version of the fancy Latin word—medieval scribes got tired of writing cenobium, so they just anglicized it and called it a day.
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