asceticism
21asceticism — Synonyms and related words: Day of Atonement, Encratism, Friday, Lenten fare, Pythagoreanism, Pythagorism, Rechabitism, Shakerism, Spartan fare, Stoicism, Yom Kippur, abstainment, abstemiousness, abstention, abstinence, avoidance, banyan day,… …
22Asceticism — (Greek for training, exercise ). An ascetic is a monk who practices a rigorous and disciplined self denial, often as a solitary hermit (anchorite [q.v.], or eremite [q.v.]). The earliest monks of the third and fourth centuries were hermits, such… …
23asceticism — doctrine that self denial of the body permits spiritual enlightenment Philosophical Isms …
24asceticism — as cet·i·cism || ɪsɪzÉ™m n. abstinence and self denial for the purpose of spiritual discipline …
25Asceticism — A programme of strict self denial …
26Asceticism — denotes a life which is characterised by refraining from worldly pleasures (austerity). Those who practice ascetic lifestyles often perceive their practices as virtuous and pursue them to achieve greater spirituality. In a more cynical context,… …
27asceticism — n. Austerity, mortification, excessive abstinence, over renunciation, renunciation …
28asceticism — n self denial, self abnegation, self mortification; mortification of the flesh, self punishment, self torment, self laceration, flagellation, scourging, flagellantism; abstinence, fasting, penance, sackcloth and ashes, monasticism, self… …
29asceticism — as·cet·i·cism …
30asceticism — See: ascetic …
