Crossword-Solution: ASCETICISM
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Asceticism | n. | The condition, practice, or mode of life, of ascetics. |
We have 25 clues for the answer “ASCETICISM”
| Clue | Answers |
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| the state of being ascetic | 1 answer |
| Discipline of mind and body. | 1 answer |
| Diogenes belief | 1 answer |
| DISCIPLINE of the body and its appetites | 1 answer |
| Austerity [1929] | 1 answer |
| scourging | 3 answers |
| PLAIN living | 4 answers |
| impecuniosity | 5 answers |
| Lady Poverty | 5 answers |
| flagellation | 9 answers |
| subsistence level | 13 answers |
| low water | 16 answers |
| Penance | 19 answers |
| Back Street | 26 answers |
| Indigence | 39 answers |
| impoverishment | 40 answers |
| insolvency | 41 answers |
| abstinence | 51 answers |
| Mortification | 56 answers |
| Temperance | 58 answers |
| Poverty | 61 answers |
| austerity | 64 answers |
| drought | 67 answers |
| insufficiency | 70 answers |
| Badness | 80 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ARTEE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ASCETICISM (5)
But there is in my nature a strain of asceticism, and I have subjected my flesh each week to a more severe mortification.
The spirit of self-denial, verging on asceticism, which had ever animated Knight in old times, announced itself as having departed with the birth of love, with it having gone the self-respect which had compensated for the lack of self-gratification.
There was no trace of asceticism upon his heavy face, but there was much mental force in his huge, dome-like skull, which curved upward from amongst his thinning locks, like a snowpeak above its fringe of fir trees.
These fundamental inner conditions have characteristic practical consequences, as follows:— _a._ _Asceticism._—The self‐surrender may become so passionate as to turn into self‐immolation.
His Queen, the gay, haughty, and pleasure-seeking Eleanor of Guienne, never admired him in this trim, and continually reproached him with imitating, not only the headdress, but the asceticism of the monks.
Quotes with ASCETICISM (3)
When exactly did this all change, and what were the social and theological factors that led to the change? The answer seems to be in the second century and: (1) because of the consolidation of ecclesial power in the hands of monarchial bishops and others; (2) in response to the rise of heretical movements such as the Gnostics; (3) in regard to the social context of the Lord’s Supper, namely, the agape, or thanksgiving, meal, due to the rise to prominence of asceticism in the …
A physical shortcoming could produce a kind of mental excess. The process, it seemed, was reversible. Mental excess could produce, for its own purposes, the voluntary blindness and deafness of deliberate solitude, the artificial impotence of asceticism.
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the sake of loyalty, that one does not push asceticism to the point where it makes friendly intercourse impossible, and that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one's love upon other human individuals.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NY Sun, NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1964–2009).