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
Ascetics, saints, bishops, peasants, philosophers, kings, Gregory the Great, Martin Luther, all testified that they had often seen him.
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville
The self-conquest of her Ascetics, the patience of her Martyrs, the irresistible determination of her Bishops, the joyous swing of her advance, both exalted and abashed me.
From Apologia Pro Vita Sua by Newman, John Henry
He read sermons on discipline, and hunted up passages in Church history that treated of the Ascetics of the second century.
From Jude the Obscure by Hardy, Thomas
