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Asceticism

Asceticism Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Asceticism? [n] the trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures) Synonyms \| Synonyms for Asceticism: austerity \| nonindulgence Related Terms \| Find terms related to Asceticism: 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 See Also \| monasticism \| self-denial \| self-discipline Asceticism In Webster's Dictionary \Ascet"icism\, n. The condition, practice, or mode of life, of ascetics.

Asceticism Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Asceticism?

[n] the trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures)

Synonyms | Synonyms for Asceticism: austerity | nonindulgence

See Also | monasticism | self-denial | self-discipline

Asceticism In Webster's Dictionary

\As*cet"i*cism\, n.
The condition, practice, or mode of life, of ascetics.

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