Both Uses of
ascetic
in
A Room With A View
- Well educated, well endowed, and not deficient physically, he remained in the grip of a certain devil whom the modern world knows as self-consciousness, and whom the medieval, with dimmer vision, worshipped as asceticism.†
Chpt 8asceticism = the practice of extreme self-denial (often to encourage spiritual growth)
- For all his culture, Cecil was an ascetic at heart, and nothing in his love became him like the leaving of it.
Chpt 17 *ascetic = someone who practices self-denial
Definition:
someone who practices self-denial (often to encourage spiritual growth); or relating to such self-denial
or:
severely plain (without decoration)
or:
severely plain (without decoration)