ascetic
IPA: ʌsˈɛtɪk
noun
- One who is devoted to the practice of self-denial, either through seclusion or stringent abstinence.
adjective
- Of or relating to ascetics
- Characterized by rigorous self-denial or self-discipline; austere; abstinent; involving a withholding of physical pleasure.
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Examples of "ascetic" in Sentences
- He was the ascetic of the highest order.
- The ascetic spent day and night in prayer and psalmody.
- After all Harappa had the seals with the ascetic and the bull.
- The marital relationship was opposed by the ascetic restraints.
- This ascetic life was the inspiration for the Buddhist ascetics.
- At the age of thirty he renounced the world and became an ascetic.
- Humbert is at the center of ascetic writers in the Dominican Order.
- At the age of thirty, he renounced the world and became an ascetic.
- From the very first the ascetic was the natural rival of the bishop.
- In the East, gnosticism is a heresy specific to the ascetic traditions.
- And yet there was a certain ascetic lengthening of the lines of his face.
- Cassian the Ascetic is about the same person as the subject of this article.
- The harsh ascetic, however, is the one the word ascetic most generally conjures up.
- And becoming pre-eminent in ascetic habits, she was wont to wear raiment of triple roughness.
- The "simplicity of the ascetic" is usurped by "the simplicity of the madman that grinds down all the contrivances of civilisation".
- One of the most famous instances of the married ascetic is Tolstoy, whose later opinion was that the highest human being completely inhibits his sex-desires and lives a celibate life.
- She wants to destroy and simplify; but it isn't the simplicity of the ascetic, which is of the spirit, but the simplicity of the madman that grinds down all the contrivances of civilization to a featureless monotony.
- But we cannot leave the statement even here without explaining that we use the word ascetic in its proper sense, to connote the rightful dominance of reason over appetite, the supremacy of the higher over the lower; not the jurisdiction of the judge over the criminal.
- I objected to his use of the word ascetic, because it's a positive word to me, indicating that the other kind of life is not as good -- medievalist girl here, I view asceticism as a good thing, but also an intentional thing -- you're not ascetic if you don't live the way you do intentionally, so as to be more holy/awesome.
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