Ascetics is valid Scrabble Word

Is ascetics a scrabble word?
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8 letters word
12 points in Scrabble
14 points in WWF

Definitions for ASCETICS in dictionary:

NOUN:

ASCETIC, one who practises asceticism
a person who follows an ascetic life.

ADJECTIVE:

characterized by severe self-discipline and abstention from all forms of indulgence, typically for religious reasons

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

one who practices extreme self-denial for religious reasons

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How to use ASCETICS in a sentence

Painters and sculptors glorify that which saints and ascetics have mortified.
In thy case, it might also be productive of anxiety to the ascetics.
And that slayer of foes passed over many mountains inhabited by ascetics, and then reached the sacred Himavat, the resort of the celestials.
It was even to obtain a sight of thyself that I came to this great mountain, which is dear to thee and which is the excellent abode of ascetics.
And beholding that hermitage inhabited by ascetics, and abounding in herds of deer and monkeys, Damayanti was cheered.
And saluting those ascetics grown old in practising austerities, she stood in an attitude of humility.
And at this, the ascetics again recollected all that they had learnt before.
In this direction, O foremost of kings, lieth the excellent asylum of Agastya, O monarch, and the forest called Tapasa, decked by many ascetics.
In that quarter also is the delightful Deva-vana which is graced by ascetics.
In that direction also are the rivers Venna and Bhimarathi, both capable of destroying sin and fear, and abounding in birds and deer, and graced with abodes of ascetics.

Then, O king, it is said that in the region on the north of the Praveni, and about the sacred asylum of Kanwa, are many woody retreats of ascetics.
And those wicked wretches devoured in the asylum of Vasishtha, Brahmanas to the number of a hundred and eighty, besides nine other ascetics.
And, O best of men, although the Danavas behaved in this way towards the ascetics in woody retreats, yet men failed to discover anything of them.
It is allowed to them as hearers to share its principles, and to undertake duties, which are a faint copy of the demands made on the ascetics.
Voluntary death by the withdrawal of nourishment is, according to the strict doctrine of the Digambara, necessary for all ascetics, who have reached the highest step of knowledge.
To these copies are added seven other vows, the miscellaneous contents of which correspond to the special directions for the discipline of ascetics.
It has also brought about a change in the mind of the ascetics.
In the fourteenth century arose the community of wandering ascetics called Nâthas who were reverenced by Hindus and Buddhists alike.
Their appearance as shown in pictures is that of Brahmanic ascetics rather than of Buddhist Bhikshus, but many of them bear names which are not Indian.
The charioteer also explained to him the character and aims of the ascetics, exemplified by the hermit.
Nothing daunted, the new prophet walked on to Benares, and in the cool of the evening went on to the Deer-forest where the five ascetics were living.
And when those heroes had departed, Dhaumya, that best of ascetics, taking their sacred fires, set out for the Panchalas.
These strict rules of conduct only apply to ascetics who are bent on attaining perfection.
The only question that remains is what was the joy of the old Christian ascetics of which their ascetism was merely the purchasing price.
Ascetics are sometimes more advanced than the average man, as well as less.
The early ascetics, who made elaborate preparations for dealing with temptations, got as an inevitable result plenty of temptations with which to deal.
Often they were ascetics and addicted to extreme forms of self-mortification.
Most are laymen, but there is a considerable sprinkling of ascetics, especially nuns.
This was specially appropriate to his hearers who were ascetics and disposed to over-rate the value of austerities.
For centuries the Buddhist monks and nuns were regarded in India as only a new sect of ascetics, among many others which flourished in the land.
They are ascetics, and teach that spiritual insight is possible only through prolonged thought.
Hindu ascetics appealed to the credulity of the masses and every Bar Association became the centre of an active political propaganda on a Western democratic model.

Similar words containing ASCETIC without suffix s

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