asceticism
IPA: ʌsˈɛtɪsɪzʌm
noun
- The principles and practices of an ascetic; extreme self-denial and austerity.
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Examples of "asceticism" in Sentences
- The day for asceticism is gone, or shall we say the night?
- Yet it seems strange to hear Savanarola praised in a poem in which asceticism is condemned.
- Though she had no clear idea what was meant by the word asceticism, she too was of opinion that it would be no harm for dear
- The word asceticism comes from the Greek askesis which means practice, bodily exercise, and more especially, atheletic training.
- The records of those rough, warm, full-blooded times come with a heady flavour and an old-world tang to the thin asceticism of to-day.
- Mrs Browning complained to her husband of what she terms the asceticism of Easter Day, the second part of his volume of 1850; his reply was that it stated “one side of the question.”
- But it stifles desire only for a greater ultimate good; it rejects that needless repression of a part of the self which we call asceticism, and an undue subordination of self to others.
- Though she had no clear idea what was meant by the word asceticism, she too was of opinion that it would be no harm for dear Yasha to take a little recreation, to see people, and to show himself.
- I know that to use the word asceticism of one's daily practice is to incur the judgment of all those whom the world calls good fellows, whose motto is live and let live, or any other aphorism of convenient and universal remission.
- The word "asceticism" goes back to the Greek for "athletic training," and the longing to be free from the prison of selfishness, has sent many people either literally or figuratively into the "desert" looking for that back against the wall urgency that is so critical to creativity.
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