self mortification in English

noun
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the subjugation of appetites or desires by self-denial or self-discipline as an aspect of religious devotion.
voluntary self-mortification such as fasting
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1. From an early age, self-mortification rites and Buddhist ritual were a part of my life.”

2. Asceticism (əsĕt`ĭsĭzəm), rejection of bodily pleasures through sustained self-denial and self-mortification, with the objective of strengthening spiritual life

3. The Jains share with the Hindus the belief that the chain of karma can be broken by vigorous ascetic discipline and advocate self - mortification , even suicide .

4. AsceticISM. Rigorous abstention from any form of self-indulgence which is based on the belief that renunciation of the desires of the flesh and self-mortification can bring man to a high spiritual state

5. Celibacy (sĕl`ĭbəsē), voluntary refusal to enter the married state, with abstinence from sexual activity.It is one of the typically Christian forms of asceticism asceticism, rejection of bodily pleasures through sustained self-denial and self-mortification, with the objective of strengthening spiritual life.

6. Asceticism (əsĕt`ĭsĭzəm), rejection of bodily pleasures through sustained self-denial and self-mortification, with the objective of strengthening spiritual life.Asceticism has been common in most major world religions, including Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, and Christianity: all of these have special ascetic cults or ascetic ideals.

7. 1300, affliccioun, "misery, sorrow, pain, distress" (originally especially "self-inflicted pain, self-mortification, religious asceticism"), from Old French afliction "act of humility, humiliation, mortification, punishment" (11c.) and directly from Latin Afflictionem (nominative afflictio), noun of action from past-participle stem of affligere "to dash down, overthrow