asceticism

[Eng. ascetic; -ism. In Fr. ascétis me.] The mode of life of an ascetic; mortification of the body. "There are two cla es of men of very different complexions, by whom the principle of asceticism appears to have been embraced the one a set of moralists, the other a set of religionist a."-Bowring: Jeremy b tham's Works, vol. 1., p. 4. Ben