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Definition of Austerities
1. austerity [n] - See also: austerity
Lexicographical Neighbors of Austerities
Literary usage of Austerities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor by Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1850)
"rules of acting tnat part of repentance which consists in corporal austerities,
and are commonly called penances. 112. /3) Let the penitent be careful that ..."
2. Annals of the Artists of Spain by Sir William Stirling Maxwell (1891)
"Notwithstanding these secret austerities, he was a man of wit and humour withal;
as appears by his reply to a brother-painter who desired his opinion of a ..."
3. The Reformation by George Park Fisher (1896)
"... the Christian ministry ; it might take the form of an explicit or indirect
resistance to the exaggerated esteem of rites and ceremonies and austerities. ..."
4. The Reformation by George Park Fisher (1906)
"... the Christian ministry, it might take the form of an explicit or indirect
resistance to the exaggerated esteem of rites and ceremonies and austerities. ..."
5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"In 1462 Father Cornelius, worn out by his labours and austerities, left Scotland
for his own province of Cologne, where he died in the convent at Antwerp. ..."
6. The History of India from the Earliest Ages by James Talboys Wheeler (1869)
"Your brother Bharata has subdued heaven by his devout austerities, and sets his
mind upon* you who are in the forest: It is said that men disregard the ..."
7. The Monks of the West, from St. Benedict to St. Bernard by Charles Forbes Montalembert, Aurélien Courson (1872)
"His austerities: his baths : legend of the otters. — He goes from Melrose to
Ripon, from which he is expelled by Wilfrid, along with all the Celtic monks. ..."
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