meaning of ascetics
1. Extremely rigid in self-denial and devotions; austere; severe.
2. In the early church, one who devoted himself to a solitary and contemplative life, characterized by devotion, extreme self-denial, and self-mortification; a hermit; a recluse; hence, one who practices extreme rigor and self-denial in religious things.
3. practices self denial as spiritual discipline
Related Words
ascetic | ascetical | ascetically | asceticism | phonascetics |
