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Meanings of ascetic in English
Portuguese
ascético Usage of ascetic in English
1
A fearful rate of labor; a strange, grave, quaint, ascetic, rigorous life.
2
The puissant ascetic, passed the middle portion of the night in sleep.
3
The baron would have embraced his brother; but the gloomy ascetic forbade.
4
The puissant ascetic resembled the Moon himself in his behaviour to all.
5
A few weeks ago the ascetic in Iglesias might have taken alarm.
6
Paphnutius passed his life in teaching his disciples, and in ascetic practices.
7
He then beheld the ascetic staying within the body of the lady.
8
The great ascetic then left the palace for proceeding to the woods.
9
The great ascetic Devasarman was fully cognisant of the disposition of women.
10
He became an ascetic; they stopped having sex, although both desired it.
11
The purity of the young Adeodatus predestined him to this ascetic existence.
12
Obtaining the leave also of the gods that great ascetic went away.
13
His features were those of the ascetic and man of the world.
14
Rosy and ascetic, with something outraged and inexpressibly sweet in her expression.
15
Preserving equability in success and failure, I shall earn great ascetic merit.
16
For sixty thousand years that sage underwent ascetic austerities in that asylum.
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Ascetic across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Rare