asceticism sentence examples

• It inculcated universal asceticism and social leveling in its crudest form.
• The abbey he founded at mynyw modeled a life of extreme asceticism modeled on that of the egyptian monks.
• Following this he spent 11 years studying martial arts and mountain asceticism with japanese monks.
• Others regarded the whole of the material world as wicked and practiced a rigorous asceticism to punish the flesh.
• The aim, however, is not to achieve a haughty puritanism or to become priggish; nor is a severe asceticism considered desirable.
• Rigid asceticism that paints all pleasure as somehow inherently wrong is another false distortion of biblical discipline.
• Others regarded the whole of the material world as wicked and practiced a rigorous asceticism to punish the flesh.
• This involved a regimen of strict asceticism and rejection of the things of the world.

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