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/ɐsˈɛtɪsˌɪzəm/
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NOUN
- rigorous self-denial and active self-restraint
- the doctrine that through renunciation of worldly pleasures it is possible to achieve a high spiritual or intellectual state
- the trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures)
How To Use asceticism In A Sentence
- With regard to marriage Luther pursues the same idea: The marital relationship between a man and a woman is true chastity and of higher value than monastic asceticism.
- He is not explicitly called a Nazarite, nor is there any mention of the unshaven hair, but the severe austerity of his life agrees with the supposed asceticism of the Nazarites. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
- Nothing is easier than to give Christian asceticism a Socialist tinge.
- (the possession of correct views, decision and purity of thought and will, the ability of reproducing any sound uttered in the universe, vow of poverty, asceticism, attainment of meditative abstraction of self-control, religious recollectedness, honesty and virtue), and such doctrines. Buddhism and Buddhists in China
- His elegant epistles, brilliant treatises, and eloquent protreptics for asceticism appeared to promise him great things.
- But his personal asceticism and disdain for the managerialism of modern politics brought its own difficulties.
- Asceticism and self-flagellation mortified the flesh.
- With the "Théologie familière" they exhibit a fair specimen of Saint-Cyran's galimatias and obscure asceticism. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
- In general, the prominent characteristic of Stoic philosophy is moral heroism, often verging on asceticism.
- In his time the religious energy and zeal were flowing away from the empirical world into the desert of otherworldliness, asceticism and renunciation.
