ascesis
noun
strict self-discipline or self-control, as for religious or meditative purposes.
askesis
-
a variation of
ascesis.
Example Sentences
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As a didactic system, indeed, the school had long disappeared, but the Pythagorean askesis seems never to have lost its continuity.
From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Samuel Dill
I caught glimpses, too, I think, of a much more profound askesis than this.
From The Secret Glory by Arthur Machen
But, as I say, I had a very dim and distant glimpse of another region of the askesis.
From The Secret Glory by Arthur Machen
This is to be done by askesis, self-mortification.
From Schopenhauer by Thomas Whittaker
