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Meanings of ascesis in English

Spanish
ascética

Rigorous self-denial and active self-restraint.

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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