Usage examples for asceticism
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No, celestial love is not asceticism; it is altruism. – Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Henry Theophilus Finck
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Historic Christianity was accused, not entirely without reason, of carrying martyrdom and asceticism to a point, desolate and pessimistic. – Orthodoxy by G. K. Chesterton
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There was no mortification, no asceticism, which I did not practise to excess. – The Scarlet Banner by Felix Dahn