How To Use self-mortification In A Sentence
- One is therefore, from more than one point of view, left with a sort of Fakir self-mortification, undertaken and "dreed" neither to atone for anything, nor to propitiate any Power, nor really to benefit any man. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
- Other sadhus practise what they call 'austerities', many of which involve self-mortification. Times, Sunday Times
- At first he studied under teachers who prescribed rigorous fasting and self-mortification.
- According to Chesterton, dirtiness is merely a kind of discomfort and therefore ranks as self-mortification. The Road to Wigan Pier
- Their bodies, thinned by rigorous fasting and scarred by the disciplines of self-mortification, were decently concealed by long dark robes.
- For the Buddha's monks this meant a life of mendicancy, of poverty but not of self-mortification, of celibacy and of gentle honesty.