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Meanings of ascetic in English
Portuguese
ascético Synonyms
Examples for "spartan"
Examples for "spartan"
1
Most, however, are discouraged by the spartan dietary discipline required of adherents.
2
The room was spartan, the walls undecorated and the floor without covering.
3
The spartan interior in the test aircraft is designed or certification purposes.
4
The gym and classrooms for its 130 children are spartan and frayed.
5
The pub itself is unremarkable -a neat but fairly spartan space.
1
He was an austere man, quite Czech, quite middle European, quite serious.
2
Despite his commitment to activism, friends say he is far from austere.
3
Junpei did not need much money to support his austere bachelor's lifestyle.
4
Her face in the moonbeams looked austere and almost spectral in outline.
5
A private room for each of us, austere but handsome, quite comfortable.
1
Have we indeed outstripped the warrior and passed the ascetical saint?
2
But this seriousness was not ascetical or moroseful.
3
This contact strengthened Father's naturally ascetical temperament.
4
Some affected an ascetical simplicity of dress, and yet hugged their purses where their Bibles should have been.
5
He had just been reading the Saint's works, and was much attracted by his ascetical attitude towards the world.
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 through the time
Ascetic across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Rare