ascetics
- plural of ascetic.
Example Sentences
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Ascetics roamed the countryside, wearing rags and begging for their meals, and the Buddha became one of them.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 29, 2015
Ascetics went for years without seeing or talking to another person.
From Time Magazine Archive
Poverty, pushed as it was by the Ascetics to the excess of destitution, tends, it is to be feared, to blight both body and soul.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 383, September 1847 by Various
The town of Dehra grew up round the temple built in 1699 by the heretical Sikh Guru, Ram Rai, the founder of the Udasi sect of Ascetics.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" by Various
The Yogi, the Sanyasi, the Ascetics, are disputing one with another: Kabîr says, "O brother! he who has seen that radiance of love, he is saved."
From Songs of Kabir by Tagore, Rabindranath
