Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The distinguishing spirit or a characteristic practice or quality of the ancient Spartans. See
Spartan .
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Examples
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So the struggle goes on -- but sometimes it's worth remembering as you fight to give away that special blue turtleneck that is, nevertheless, stained in a conspicuous place -- that the goal isn't puritan spartanism, but freedom to love the beautiful more fully.
Archive 2007-10-01 regina doman 2007
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So the struggle goes on -- but sometimes it's worth remembering as you fight to give away that special blue turtleneck that is, nevertheless, stained in a conspicuous place -- that the goal isn't puritan spartanism, but freedom to love the beautiful more fully.
Clothing Organization part 3: Detachment and Appreciation regina doman 2007
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Thus one must not assume that Hemingwayan spartanism is the only desirable mode, unless one is ready to indict T.S. Eliot,
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