ascetic
Definition: Given to severe self-denial and practicing excessive abstinence and devotion
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Modern Greek Stories - By Demetra (Vaka) Brown, Demetra Vaka, Aristides Evangelus Phoutrides
...little chapel called St. Athanase, the Ascetic, because it was said, a sainted ascetic lived and died there ....
The Heavenly Twins - By Sarah Grand
...It was a calm and passionless existence that he led, the life of an ascetic, but of a cultivated ascetic, devoted to the highest intellectual pursuits, and actuated by the belief that their value consisted, not in their market price, nor in the amount of attention called fame, which they might attract to himself, but in the pleasure they gave and in the good they did ....
The Philosophy of Fiction in Literature - By Daniel Greenleaf Thompson
...Both of these stories were discarded on the ascetic principle that to recognize vice is to favor, and to ignore is the best way of extinguishing it ....
The Philosophy of Fiction in Literature - By Daniel Greenleaf Thompson
...Both of these stories were discarded on the ascetic principle that to recognize vice is to favor, and to ignore is the best way of extinguishing it ....
Dreamers of the Ghetto - By Israel Zangwill
...I was disconcerted to find such Epicurean doctines in a district where, but for my experience of Baer, I should have expected to see the ascetic influence of the Baal Shem predominant . "...
The Brown Study - By Grace S. Richmond
...Only--only--you know an ascetic denies himself things that he need n't ....
The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night - By Adolphe Lalauze, John Payne
...A native of Menr and a famous ascetic of the eighth and ninth centuries ....
The Scarlet Letter - By Nathaniel Hawthorne, Joseph Hatton
...Hester sought not to acquire anything beyond a subsistence, of the plainest and most ascetic description, for herself, and a simple abundance for her child ....
Kim - By Rudyard Kipling, John Lockwood Kipling
...The Seeker--he who had invited the lama to that haven from far-away Tibet, a silver-faced, hairless ascetic--took no part in it, but meditated, as always, alone among the images ....
A Room with a View - By Edward Morgan Forster
...For all his culture, Cecil was an, ascetic at heart, and nothing in his love became him like the leaving of it ....
A Miscellany of Men - By Gilbert Keith Chesterton
...I have no attraction to that sort of atheist asceticism to which the purer types of Anarchism tend; but both an atheist and an ascetic are better men than a spy; and it is ignominious to see one 's country thus losing her special point of honor about asylum and liberty ....
The Return of the Native - By Thomas Hardy, John William Cunliffe
...The most thorough-going ascetic could feel that he had a natural right to wander on Egdon : he was keeping within the line of legitimate indulgence when he laid himself open to influences such as these ....
Howards End - By Edward Morgan Forster, Philip M. Parker
...The foundations of Property and Propriety are laid bare, twin rocks; Family Pride flounders to the surface, puffing and blowing and refusing to be comforted; Theology, vaguely ascetic, gets up a nasty ground swell ....
The Portrait of a Lady - By Henry James
...There is to be nothing ascetic; there 's just to be a certain little sense of sequestration ....
Of Human Bondage - By William Somerset Maugham
...He was pleased to think that his shaven face gave him the look of a priest, and in his youth he had possessed an ascetic air which added to the impression ....
Ben-Hur - By Lew Wallace
...Visvamitra, the greatest of the ascetic heroes of the Iliad of the East, had in him a perfect representative ....