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Use in Literature

Ascetics

So I shall only note that here all the statues, idols, and carvings are ascribed to Buddhist ascetics of the first centuries after the death of Buddha.–Helena Pretrovna Blavatsky in From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan.

The yard was full of devotees, and of ascetics.–Helena Pretrovna Blavatsky in From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan.

I say that the main Christian impulse cannot be described as asceticism, even in the ascetics.–G.K. Chesterton in The Innocence of Father Brown.

Spiritual perfection, accompanied by corporeal feebleness, was the invention of asceticism; and the Greeks were never ascetics.–John Fiske in The Unseen World and Other Essays.

We have a healthy distrust of ascetics, whose anxiety over their soul's condition we properly regard as a form of egotism; and we know how easily the unco' guid become prigs.–Antonio Fogazzaro in The Saint.

In the reign of Constantine, the Ascetics fled from a profane and degenerate world, to perpetual solitude, or religious society.–Edward Gibbon in Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, vol 3.

Christianity couldn't spread over the world without help of the ascetic ideal, and this great movement for woman's emancipation must also have its ascetics.–George Gissing in The Odd Women.

He read sermons on discipline, and hunted up passages in Church history that treated of the Ascetics of the second century.–Thomas Hardy in Jude the Obscure.

They will not be religious in the fashion of monks, ascetics, mystic dreamers, or emotional enthusiasts.–David Starr Jordan in The Call of the Twentieth Century (An Address to Young Men).

The ascetics of the past, who scorned cleanliness in the search for godliness, became, sometimes, neither clean nor holy.–David Starr Jordan in The Philosophy of Despair.

• Preface iv
• Use in Literature 1
• Ascetics 1
• Nonfiction Usage 3
• Script Usage 3
• Journalism Usage 3
• Bibliographic Usage 3
• Encyclopedic Usage 6
• Lexicographic Usage 7
• Index 13