ASCETIC
\ɐsˈɛtɪk], \ɐsˈɛtɪk], \ɐ_s_ˈɛ_t_ɪ_k]\
Definitions of ASCETIC
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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practices self denial as spiritual discipline
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practicing great self-denial; "Be systematically ascetic...do...something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it"- William James; "a desert nomad's austere life"; "a spartan diet"; "a spartan existence"
By Princeton University
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practices self denial as spiritual discipline
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practicing great self-denial; "Be systematically ascetic...do...something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it"- William James; "a desert nomad's austere life"; "a spartan diet"; "a spartan existence"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Extremely rigid in self-denial and devotions; austere; severe.
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In the early church, one who devoted himself to a solitary and contemplative life, characterized by devotion, extreme self-denial, and self-mortification; a hermit; a recluse; hence, one who practices extreme rigor and self-denial in religious things.
By Oddity Software
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Extremely rigid in self-denial and devotions; austere; severe.
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In the early church, one who devoted himself to a solitary and contemplative life, characterized by devotion, extreme self-denial, and self-mortification; a hermit; a recluse; hence, one who practices extreme rigor and self-denial in religious things.
By Noah Webster.
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Severely self denying; rigid in the exercise of religious duties.
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One who gives up the world and devotes himself to religious exercises; one who subjects himself to severe methods of living; a hermit; a recluse.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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One rigidly self-denying in religious observances: a strict hermit.
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Excessively rigid: austere: recluse.
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ASCETICISM.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Practising extreme abstinence; severely self-denying.
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One austerely self-denying; a hermit.
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Ascetically.
By James Champlin Fernald
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