Meaning of ASCETICISM
| Pronunciation: | | u'seti`sizum
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| | Definition: | | [n] the trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures) |
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| | Synonyms: | | austerity, nonindulgence |
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| | See Also: | | monasticism, self-denial, self-discipline | |
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| | Definition: | | \As*cet"i*cism\, n.
The condition, practice, or mode of life, of ascetics.
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| | Related Terms: | | abstainment, abstemiousness, abstention, abstinence, avoidance, banyan day, celibacy, chastity, cold purgatorial fires, continence, Day of Atonement, Encratism, eschewal, fast, fasting, fish day, flagellation, Friday, fruitarianism, gymnosophy, hair shirt, Lenten fare, lustration, maceration, mortification, nephalism, penance, penitence, penitential act, penitential exercise, plain living, purgation, purgatory, Pythagoreanism, Pythagorism, Rechabitism, refraining, refrainment, repentance, sackcloth and ashes, sexual abstinence, Shakerism, simple diet, spare diet, Spartan fare, Stoicism, teetotalism, the pledge, total abstinence, vegetarianism, Yom Kippur |
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