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Definition of Ascesis
1. Noun. Rigorous self-denial and active self-restraint.
Definition of Ascesis
1. Noun. self-discipline ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ascesis
1. the conduct of an ascetic [n -CESES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ascesis
Literary usage of Ascesis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Nomenclator literarius theologiae catholicae theologos exhibens aetate ...by Hugo Hurter by Hugo Hurter (1906)
"703 Theologia moralis et pas- torahs 712 ascesis et theologia mys- tica 715 XII.
... 949 Theologia moralis et pastoralis 957 ascesis . .... 974 XV. ..."
2. Harvard Essays on Classical Subjects by Herbert Weir Smyth (1912)
"spoke of a spiritual as well as a physical ascesis. ... It must be repeated,
however, that to the Greeks the word ascesis signified a positive fully as much ..."
3. Handbook of the History of Philosophy by Albert Schwegler (1868)
"... but only through ecstasy, mystic annihilation of self, ascesis, theurgy, ...
of sense in contrast to the merely negative action of ascesis). ..."
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