Definitionadj. pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic or the practice of rigorous self-discipline
Last update: February 18, 2017
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He is leading the life of an ascetic. [adjective]
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It was not a place for seclusion, but the desire to undertake an ascetic feat arose and she accepted it. [Please select]
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The obvious difference was that John seems to be a solitary ascetic not a member of a community. [Please select]
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Visvamitra, the greatest of the ascetic heroes of the Iliad of the East, had in him a perfect representative. [Please select]
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Where the bed should have been, there was a wooden frame, strewed with withered moss and rushes, the couch of the ascetic. [Please select]
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Himself an ascetic mystic, he foresaw the danger to others of attempting to pursue the same course, or even of founding a system of mystical study. [Please select]
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In this respect, the ascetic and the sage converge. [Please select]
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His life has since been that alternately of a pilgrim and a hermit, suffering the most severe privations, not indeed in ascetic devotion, but in abhorrence of mankind. [Please select]
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Instead of enjoying his new comforts, Donne grew more ascetic and intellectual in his tastes. [Please select]
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To mingle with one's life a certain presence of the sepulchre,this is the law of the sage; and it is the law of the ascetic. [Please select]
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Captain Daniel Colton, thin and ascetic, walked forward. [Please select]
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