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The ascetic life has been more pronounced in Hinduism and Buddhism than in other major religions.ascetic = the practice of self-denial
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Most religions have or have had traces of asceticism in order to achieve a spiritual goal.asceticism = belief in the benefits of self-denial
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"A non-materialist. And yet you are unpleasantly fat. A gluttonous ascetic? Such a contradiction." "When I'm tense, I eat." (source)ascetic = one who practices self-denial
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In college McCandless began emulating Tolstoy's asceticism and moral rigor to a degree that first astonished, and then alarmed, those who were close to him. (source)asceticism = practice of self-denial
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Saint-Sulpice was stark and cold, conveying an almost barren quality reminiscent of the ascetic cathedrals of Spain. (source)ascetic = severely plain (without decoration)
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He wasn't accustomed to being talked back to, certainly not by women. ... I had turned bold and adventurous, and he even more ascetic and emotionally austere. We had become natural opponents. (source)ascetic = self-denying of comfort
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In ancient Greece, too, there were many people who believed in an ascetic, or religiously secluded, way of life for the salvation of the soul. (source)ascetic = someone who practices self-denial (especially to encourage spiritual growth)
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Although his income was small, he had no taste for luxury--his experience in the monastery had solidified his natural asceticism while it developed his preference for solitude. (source)asceticism = tendency towards self-denial
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Most of it he contributed anonymously to the monks of a local monastery--humble ascetics who had dedicated their lives to raising German police dogs. (source)ascetics = someone who practices self-denial (often to encourage spiritual growth)
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Living rather ascetically, travelling third-class ... and penalizing himself for any extravagances, he maintained a qualified financial independence. (source)ascetically = in the manner of someone who practices self-denial
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It is told that Pannalal the Sage, having sharpened his mind with meditation and divers asceticisms, had divined the operation of the lock and entered Hellwell, spending a day and a night beneath the mountain.† (source)asceticisms = practices of self-denial
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Not only that, but his features had become far more angled, giving him an ascetic, hawklike appearance. (source)ascetic = severely plain (without decoration)
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I can't help thinking of the Hippolytus of Euripides, where the early licentiousness of Theseus is probably responsible for the asceticism of the son that helps bring about the tragedy that ruins them all. (source)asceticism = practice of extreme self-denial
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Holy men, ascetics, fanatics, sorcerers, dragon-slayers, demonhunters ...there were many tales about them.† (source)
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His suits fitted as though he had borrowed them from a stout friend, and his face, seldom suggestive of his profession, was now not at all so; it could have been that of an ascetic absorbed in occult pursuits. (source)ascetic = someone who practices self-denial
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...the Manichaeans believed that the world and all matter were created by nefarious forces, and that the only way to battle them was through asceticism and a pure life. (source)asceticism = the practice of extreme self-denial
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