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Meanings of asceticism in English
Portuguese
ascese Catalan
austeritat The trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures)
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Examples for "ascesis"
Examples for "ascesis"
1
Nam ascesis consuetas tantum et tritas perfectionis semitas ostendit, mystica autem adhuc excellentiorem viam demonstrat.
2
[Footnote 20: In a Roman Catholic manual I find: Non raro sub nomine theologiæ mysticæ intelligitur etiam ascesis, sed immerito.
Usage of asceticism in English
1
According to him, the ideal of Christianity was the ideal of asceticism.
2
Athleticism in England is an asceticism, as much as the monastic rules.
3
It combines sublimity with asceticism and wickedness, in a most marvellous manner.
4
III.-Hedoes not touch upon Happiness; probably he would lean to asceticism.
5
The self-asceticism, and most probably the mother-complex cannot be passed without mention.
6
The entire history of asceticism proves this to be only too true.
7
True morality passes through virtue, which is rooted in sympathy into asceticism.
8
But there's a balance to be struck between hoarding and neurotic asceticism.
9
Perhaps an insufficient quality of food may have tended to this asceticism.
10
In her anger, her asceticism, her despair, the woman has become beautiful.
11
From this doctrine, too, they derived their teachings of an extreme asceticism.
12
Buddhism was an after-thought, only reached after six years of bootless asceticism.
13
Is not a dreamless sleep preferable to misery or even cold asceticism?
14
It was, for her, a single asceticism in a rather selfish life.
15
Soon there would be nothing left of the famous Roman asceticism.
16
Nor did her asceticism extinguish the natural affections of her heart.
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