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EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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They belonged to an ascetic Jewish sect called the Essenes
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At the same time, however, the Church also honored an ascetic ideal.
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Counterbalancing this ascetic wunderkind is his brother, Charles Solomon.
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Like the ascetic movement of which it was an outgrowth, monasticism had its origins in the Middle East.
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Louis became an extremely devout and ascetic man.
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Other forms of holiness - that of the virgin and the ascetic - were assimilated to martyrdom.
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The church itself became a two-class system: the ascetic monasteries versus the more worldly regular clergy.