All 3 Uses of
ascetic
in
Howards End
- Love, say the ascetics, reveals our shameful kinship with the beasts.
Part 16 *ascetics = people who practices self-denial
- The foundations of Property and Propriety are laid bare, twin rocks; Family Pride flounders to the surface, puffing and blowing and refusing to be comforted; Theology, vaguely ascetic, gets up a nasty ground swell.†
Part 20
- Outwardly he was cheerful, reliable, and brave; but within, all had reverted to chaos, ruled, so far as it was ruled at all, by an incomplete asceticism.†
Part 22
Definition:
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(ascetic) someone who practices self-denial (often to encourage spiritual growth); or relating to such self-denial
or:
severely plain (without decoration)