What is "austerities"

Usage examples of "austerities".

In the old days, you could coerce a fallen angel just by practicing the traditional austerities: fasting, scourging, suchlike.

Mother Saint-Joseph (Mademoiselle de Cogolludo), Mother Sainte-Adelaide (Mademoiselle d'Auverney), Mother Misericorde (Mademoiselle de Cifuentes, who could not resist austerities), Mother Compassion (Mademoiselle de la Miltiere, received at the age of sixty in defiance of the rule, and very wealthy).

Although disapproving of the Brahmanic austerities as an end, he practised them during six years, in order to subdue the senses.

The habit of wealth and property which the Kolodrian merchants brought to Lurkna Downs, the urbanity and cosmopolitan conceits which two centuries of trade with Kolodria have since fostered there, have deprived the First Folk values—their ferocious passions and proud austerities—of the general reverence they once enjoyed.

The current sag in sap prices demanded austerities—Another pickled quiffle, Uncle?

Going on again to the south for twenty le, they arrived at the place where the Bodhisattva for six years practised with himself painful austerities.

He and his four friends had followed Sakyamuni into the Uruvilva desert, sympathising with him in the austerities he endured, and hoping that they would issue in his Buddhaship.

In all likelihood, his choice did not reflect any burden of anxiety so much as the fact that the greater austerities practiced by the Celestin monks gave greater assurance of salvation to their patrons.

I see no reason why a fine young fellow should choose such a torment of his own will, but there, folk do strange things, I daresay he hopes to win some great mercy for himself with his austerities.

Matthew had overtaken, surely, a Ciaran grown weary of his penitential austerities, now there was no one by to see.

The four lents of the M/USCOVITES\, and the austerities of some , appear more disagreeable than meekness and benevolence.