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Meanings of ascesis in English

Spanish
ascética

Rigorous self-denial and active self-restraint.

ascética
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Examples for "asceticism"
Examples for "asceticism"
1
According to him, the ideal of Christianity was the ideal of asceticism.
Heretics
2
Athleticism in England is an asceticism, as much as the monastic rules.
Twelve Types
3
It combines sublimity with asceticism and wickedness, in a most marvellous manner.
The Standard Operaglass / Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fift...
4
III.-Hedoes not touch upon Happiness; probably he would lean to asceticism.
Moral Science; a Compendium of Ethics
5
The self-asceticism, and most probably the mother-complex cannot be passed without mention.
The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10
Usage of ascesis in English
1
Nam ascesis consuetas tantum et tritas perfectionis semitas ostendit, mystica autem adhuc excellentiorem viam demonstrat.
Christian Mysticism
2
[Footnote 20: In a Roman Catholic manual I find: Non raro sub nomine theologiæ mysticæ intelligitur etiam ascesis, sed immerito.
Christian Mysticism
Translations for ascesis
Ascesis through the time