Lifestyle of frugality and abstinence of various forms, often for spiritual goals.
The trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures)
Rigorous self-denial and active self-restraint.
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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