askesis

Noun

1. Alternative form of ascesis.
   • And this we do find in the Basilican, the Byzantine, and the Romanesque architectures, each more perfect than another, and each lacking in an ever diminishing degree much of the perfect holiness of the Saint of "the...
   • The preacher's faith should be nourished by self-discipline, the true askesis. […] What we venture to recommend is that spiritual askesis—self-discipline of all the faculties—which imparts to the preacher's faith the...
   • The body of this book consists of three related case studies, which take up particular problematics surrounding the hermeneutics of the transgendered agent, the askeses of organized weight-loss dieting, and attempts to...