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asceticism: rigorous self-denial and active self-restraint; the doctrine that through renunciation of worldly pleasures it is possible to achieve a high spiritual or intellectual state

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sackcloth and ashes collapse: a display of extreme remorse or repentance or grief

Day of Atonement collapse

repentance collapse: remorse for your past conduct

monasticism collapse: asceticism as a form of religious life; usually conducted in a community under a common rule and characterized by celibacy and poverty and obedience

Yom Kippur collapse: (Judaism) a solemn and major fast day on the Jewish calendar; 10th of Tishri; its observance is one of the requirements of the Mosaic law

avoidance collapse: deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening

penitence collapse

refraining collapse

abstention collapse

fasting collapse

flagellation collapse

penance collapse: a Catholic sacrament; repentance and confession and satisfaction and absolution; voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing

celibacy collapse: an unmarried status

Stoicism collapse: an indifference to pleasure or pain; (philosophy) the philosophical system of the Stoics following the teachings of the ancient Greek philosopher Zeno

purgatory collapse: (theology) in Roman Catholic theology the place where those who have died in a state of grace undergo limited torment to expiate their sins; a temporary condition of torment or suffering; "a purgatory of drug abuse"

temperance collapse: the act of tempering; the trait of avoiding excesses

purgation collapse

chastity collapse: abstaining from sexual relations (as because of religious vows)

mortification collapse: (Christianity) the act of mortifying the lusts of the flesh by self-denial and privation (especially by bodily pain or discomfort inflicted on yourself)

vegetarianism collapse: a diet excluding all meat and fish

continence collapse: the exercise of self constraint in sexual matters; voluntary control over urinary and fecal discharge

self-denial collapse: the act of denying yourself; controlling your impulses

abstinence collapse: act or practice of refraining from indulging an appetite; the trait of abstaining (especially from alcohol)

austerity collapse: the trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures)

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