Ascetical is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ASCETICAL in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a person who dedicates his or her life to a pursuit of contemplative ideals and practices extreme self-denial or self-mortification for religious reasons.
• a person who leads an austerely simple life, especially one who abstains from the normal pleasures of life or denies himself or herself material satisfaction.
• (in the early Christian church) a monk; hermit.
ADJECTIVE []:
• relating to asceticism, the doctrine that one can reach a high spiritual state through the practice of extreme self-denial or self-mortification.
• rigorously abstinent; austere: an ascetic existence.
• exceedingly strict or severe in religious exercises or self-mortification.
ADJECTIVE:
• practising severe abstinence or austerity, esp. for religious or spiritual reasons, also ASCETIC
• pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic or the practice of rigorous self-discipline
• practicing great self-denial
• ascetic
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• practicing strict self-denial as a measure of personal and especially spiritual discipline

Words related to ASCETICAL

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Words that contain ASCETICAL

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How to use ASCETICAL in a sentence

• When Professor Anton visited the Jesuit Library at Madrid, in 1687, he inquired for the best ascetical writer.

Similar words containing ASCETIC without suffix al

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