Thoreau practiced his own style of asceticism. From LearnThat.org.
The word asceticism comes from the Greek askesis which means practice, bodily exercise, and more especially, atheletic training. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize] Reference
The day for asceticism is gone, or shall we say the night?. From Wordnik.com. [The Kempton-Wace Letters] Reference
Yet it seems strange to hear Savanarola praised in a poem in which asceticism is condemned. From Wordnik.com. [Nobel Prize in Literature 1906 - Presentation Speech] Reference
The records of those rough, warm, full-blooded times come with a heady flavour and an old-world tang to the thin asceticism of to-day. From Wordnik.com. [Canadian Cities of Romance] Reference
It contains several degrees, such as asceticism, mandicanism, etc. From Wordnik.com. [Modern Persia] Reference
It is this last motive which the highest kind of asceticism adopts. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize] Reference
Either way, this "asceticism" is nothing but a variation on materialism. From Wordnik.com. [Libertarian Blog Place] Reference
If by "asceticism" we mean an experiment in starving the senses, there is little harm in it. From Wordnik.com. [Emerson and Other Essays] Reference
In India; there were tides of ideologies glorifying irresponsible "asceticism" from time to time. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
It is cheerful in its tone, quite in contrast with the gloomy asceticism which is stamped on it in after times. From Wordnik.com. [Outline of Universal History] Reference
He confirms that SWADHARMA is more meritorious than "asceticism" in which one may conquer one's petty selfishness; but can DR. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
What is called "asceticism" or "puritanism" is the result of an over-balanced concentration of the will upon the phenomena of sensation alone. From Wordnik.com. [The Complex Vision] Reference
A kind of asceticism, a great sobriety that can lead a right-wing monarchist Catholic like Blanchot, young and privileged, very far from himself. From Wordnik.com. [Spurious] Reference
But, as followers of the Catholic Tradition, especially the English Catholic Tradition, the word "asceticism" must be understood in a practical way. From Wordnik.com. [The Continuum] Reference
"Natural Selection;" also self-abnegation and asceticism. From Wordnik.com. [On the Genesis of Species] Reference
But the supposedly reformed Mike isn't all asceticism these days. From Wordnik.com. [Out Of The Box] Reference
But in truth asceticism has a continuous history within Hellenism. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
It seems very hard to disentangle the true state of holiness from asceticism. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in the Land of Canaan] Reference
He went to Berlin, hoping, perhaps, for a little dramatic asceticism to rub off. From Wordnik.com. [Rufus Wainwright's Operatic Period: 'Stars'] Reference
From the seventh to the twelfth century, the tendency to asceticism was rampant. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3 No 2, February 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
One policy he has opted not to continue, however, is his predecessor's asceticism. From Wordnik.com. [Gen. David Petraeus says Afghanistan war strategy 'fundamentally sound'] Reference
It combines sublimity with asceticism and wickedness, in a most marvellous manner. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
In the next century that vision will hold infinitely more power than the old asceticism. From Wordnik.com. [A New Tiger] Reference
What has come of all the fasting and renunciation, the cruel asceticism and severe discipline?. From Wordnik.com. [The Right Knock A Story] Reference
He believed that God's gifts were for man's enjoyment, and he set his face against asceticism. From Wordnik.com. [Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies] Reference
Care of the aged and infirm opposed by "Natural Selection;" also self-abnegation and asceticism. From Wordnik.com. [On the Genesis of Species] Reference
The primitive asceticism had almost vanished; it had not, however, died, leaving nothing in its place. From Wordnik.com. [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference
But his general recommendation is asceticism, renunciation of the striving for pleasure, the voluntary acceptance of pain. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
But he had five colleagues who continued their religious practices of asceticism, and they regarded Siddhartha as a failure. From Wordnik.com. [Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche: Is Buddhism a Religion?] Reference
In the first place, so far as the founder was himself concerned, his life was one of asceticism, but still more of prayer. From Wordnik.com. [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference
Some one objects: "Then you make wholesale condemnation of progress, and would lead us back to the good old times -- to asceticism perhaps.". From Wordnik.com. [The Simple Life] Reference
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