Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to the practice of rigid self-denial and the mortification of the body as a means of attaining virtue and holiness; ascetic.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic.
- adjective practicing great self-denial.
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- adjective
ascetic
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective practicing great self-denial
- adjective pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic or the practice of rigorous self-discipline
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Examples
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Let thy self-discipline be not in ascetical exercises as the false teachers (1Ti 4: 3, 8; compare 2Ti 2: 22, 23; Heb
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For very much of the literature that comes under this head of demonology is tainted with errors that may well owe their origin to the father of falsehood, and much of it again, especially those portions which have a practical purpose (what may be called the ascetical and mystical demonology) is designed to lead men to give themselves to the service of Satan.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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When you read the complete stories of the lives of these saints and shift your focus from the gruesome details of their martyrdoms and extreme ascetical practices, you might meet people who can teach you about being who you are.
Rev. James Martin, S.J.: The Saints Were as Strange as You Are - And You Can Be as Holy as They Were S.J. Rev. James Martin 2010
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This is all the more difficult because many liberation theologians continue to use a great deal of the Church's classical ascetical and dogmatic language while changing its signification.
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When you read the complete stories of the lives of these saints and shift your focus from the gruesome details of their martyrdoms and extreme ascetical practices, you might meet people who can teach you about being who you are.
Rev. James Martin, S.J.: The Saints Were as Strange as You Are - And You Can Be as Holy as They Were S.J. Rev. James Martin 2010
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When you read the complete stories of the lives of these saints, and shift your focus from the gruesome details of their martyrdoms and their more extreme ascetical practices, you might meet people who can teach you about being who you are.
Rev. James Martin, S.J.: The Saints Were as Strange as You Are - And You Can Be as Holy as They Were S.J. Rev. James Martin 2010
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Fr Robinson, the founder of the Toronto Oratory, is a philosopher and a student of the spiritual and ascetical tradition of the Church.
Interpreting Newman’s Beatification: Reactions from Key Figures 2009
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Reminded me of British colonialist discourse which deemd Hinduism “ascetical” and “fatalistic” (and thus a pat reason for the poverty in India), never mind the “Victorian Holocausts” and other inconvenient truths.
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Not seldom, in fact, they interlard their plans and hopes for a revival of the sacred liturgy with principles which compromise this holiest of causes in theory or practice, and sometimes even taint it with errors touching Catholic faith and ascetical doctrine.
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When you read the complete stories of the lives of these saints, and shift your focus from the gruesome details of their martyrdoms and their more extreme ascetical practices, you might meet people who can teach you about being who you are.
Rev. James Martin, S.J.: The Saints Were as Strange as You Are - And You Can Be as Holy as They Were S.J. Rev. James Martin 2010
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