Usually means: Voluntary self-denial for spiritual growth.
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  1. asceticism: Merriam-Webster
  2. asceticism: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. asceticism: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. asceticism: Collins English Dictionary
  5. asceticism: Vocabulary.com
  6. Asceticism, asceticism: Wordnik
  7. asceticism: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. asceticism: Wiktionary
  9. asceticism: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. asceticism: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. asceticism: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. asceticism: Dictionary.com
  13. Asceticism: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Asceticism: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. asceticism: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. asceticism: Rhymezone
  17. Asceticism: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. asceticism: FreeDictionary.org
  19. asceticism: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. asceticism: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. asceticism: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. asceticism: Merriam-Webster

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. asceticism: Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names
  2. The Ism Book (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. asceticism: Legal dictionary

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  1. Asceticism: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. asceticism: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sociology (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Unusual Sexual Practices (No longer online)

Religion (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Asceticism: Catholic Encyclopedia
  2. Glossary of spiritual and religious terms (No longer online)
  3. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

(Note: See ascetic as well.)

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noun:  The principles and practices of an ascetic; extreme self-denial and austerity.

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