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Definition of Ascetically
1. Adverb. In an ascetic manner. "She lived ascetically in a small house all by herself"
Definition of Ascetically
1. Adverb. In an ascetic manner. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ascetically
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ascetically
Literary usage of Ascetically
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge History of American Literature by William Peterfield Trent (1918)
"... that stand ever ready at the clerical elbow; he prefers Mrs. Stowe to Goethe;
but the great body of his work is ascetically pure in taste as in style. ..."
2. The Life of Reason; Or, The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana (1906)
"... like other merciful systems, it has trembled too much at pain and tended to
withdraw the will ascetically, lest the will should be defeated. ..."
3. A History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great by John Bagnell Bury (1913)
"To attain a final deliverance, a man must live ascetically according to rules
which the Orphics prescribed, and be initiated in the orgies of Dionysus. ..."
4. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1882)
"He was almost ascetically severe with what he considered his own short-comings,
but showed unmingled generosity toward others, and would accept just reproof ..."
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