Ascetic Mnemonic
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ascetic
ascetic
/əˈsɛ.tɪk/
Examples
- This ascetic life was the inspiration for the Buddhist ascetics.
- He was the ascetic of the highest order.
- The marital relationship was opposed by the ascetic restraints.
- Humbert is at the center of ascetic writers in the Dominican Order.
- In the East, gnosticism is a heresy specific to the ascetic traditions.
- The ascetic spent day and night in prayer and psalmody.
- After all Harappa had the seals with the ascetic and the bull.
- At the age of thirty he renounced the world and became an ascetic.
- At the age of thirty, he renounced the world and became an ascetic.
- Cassian the Ascetic is about the same person as the subject of this article.
someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline
noun
pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic or the practice of rigorous self-discipline
adjective
practicing great self-denial- William James
adjective
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"A + C + Sit + Tick. A monk sits calmly, ignoring the tick, practicing self-discipline."
"As + Set + Tick. A monk sets aside worldly joys, strict in habit like a tick."
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