| 释义 |
as·cet·i·cism
\-əˌsizəm\ noun
(-s)
1.
a. : the condition, practice, or mode of life of an ascetic : rigorous abstention from self-indulgence
< his direction toward a life of asceticism and contemplation was already clear — W.P.Clancy >
b. : a disciplinary course of conduct in which certain actions (as contemplation and fasting) are performed for their intellectual, moral, or religious effect
< for the Catholic asceticism of poverty the Protestant substituted the asceticism of work — Stringfellow Barr >
2. : the doctrine that through the renunciation of the desires of the flesh and of pleasure in worldly things and through self-mortification or self-denial one can subdue his appetites and discipline himself so as to reach a high spiritual or intellectual state
< the Greek ideal was far removed from asceticism — G.L.Dickinson > |