What's the difference between ascetic and spartan?

Ascetic


Definition:

  • (a.) Extremely rigid in self-denial and devotions; austere; severe.
  • (n.) In the early church, one who devoted himself to a solitary and contemplative life, characterized by devotion, extreme self-denial, and self-mortification; a hermit; a recluse; hence, one who practices extreme rigor and self-denial in religious things.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Famously ascetic, teetotal and vegetarian, he meditates, practises yoga and shuns the trappings of office.
  • (2) There are several basic structures upon which anorexia nervosa could develop: hostility between mother and daughter, feministic protest, abandonnism, the ascetic structure, the reluctance against the being-thrown-on-the-world, asw.
  • (3) As Obama put it himself, decades later, "I was leading an ascetic existence, way too serious for my own good".
  • (4) Pitt says Malick is nothing like the ascetic monk he's often imagined to be.
  • (5) But the other point is that unilateral opting out might mean you end up living a somewhat ascetic life.
  • (6) Now, it's all too easy to portray the average politician as a policy-wonk fed since the age of 14 on position papers on social policy and party outreach, professionally married to the job, ascetically weaned day and night on the company of his or her fellow party workers and political researchers, never seeing daylight, never watching telly, never having any cultural development outside whatever serves their policy purview.
  • (7) He is described as ascetic, highly disciplined and unfazed by the prospect of violence.
  • (8) These studies (2, 3, 5, 6) have demonstrated that the high IgE responses induced in low responder mice can be substantially diminished, and even abolished, by passively transfusing serum or ascetic fluid from donor mice previously inoculated with mycobacterial-containing complete Freund's adjuvant (CFA).
  • (9) (Because obviously, no one minds if you win or lose a game of football – and at the full-time whistle, after meditating for a while, the players pool their wages with the fans, before shyly retiring to their modest homes and ascetic lifestyles.)
  • (10) They are both people who appeal to better human values.” The Dalai Lama leads an ascetic life, rising before dawn to meditate and spending much of his time reading, thinking and taking long walks before retiring to bed at about 8.30pm.
  • (11) We’re approaching a point where a significant number of people want to change.” Brand is hardly an ascetic, but he is learning about self-denial.
  • (12) But Mr Putin has ended that disarray and rehabilitated the KGB as the embodiment of the ascetic, incorruptible public service.
  • (13) Overshadowed by his father, competent but underwhelming as a minister and shadow minister, high-minded and ascetic in his habits, Benn had seemed set to go through a political life without leaving a great mark.
  • (14) It is the religious aspects of enigmatic Persia that helped put an 80-year-old exiled ascetic at the head of state 30 years ago, then the charismatic cleric Khatami in office 12 years ago, the honest son of a blacksmith – Ahmedinejad – four years ago, and the same yesterday.
  • (15) Kafka was slim and underweight throughout his life and showed an ascetic attitude and abjuration of physical enjoyment and pleasure (fasting, vegetarianism, sexual abstinence, emphasis on physical fitness).
  • (16) Takao is still considered an important religious site, so don't be surprised to find yourself sharing a trail with ascetic Buddhists on their way to pray at Yakuo-in temple or cleanse themselves beneath the freezing waterfalls of Biwa-daki or Hebi-daki.
  • (17) He likened himself to an ascetic and a house cat and said he rarely left the house, spending most of his days surfing the internet – though visitors have brought him piles of books.
  • (18) From the 9th century, Sufi ascetics wandered the Islamic world, attracting followers to their gentle form of mystical Islam (the word Sufi is often thought to have come from suuf - wool - from the woollen garments the holy men wore).
  • (19) In the pre-State era, Israeli society displayed an "ascetic" orientation with emphasis on austerity and egalitarianism.
  • (20) In the moment of victory Murray dropped his racket and turned, mouth agape, towards the nearest section of the crowd – by happy coincidence also the press box – before crumpling to his knees on Centre Court, overcome at the end point of a gruellingly ascetic, occasionally obsessive journey towards an unassailable career high.

Spartan


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Sparta, especially to ancient Sparta; hence, hardy; undaunted; as, Spartan souls; Spartan bravey.
  • (n.) A native or inhabitant of Sparta; figuratively, a person of great courage and fortitude.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) When Nicolas Sarkozy held his first comeback rally, he sweated profusely on a small stage in a stuffy and spartan gymnasium in the south of France.
  • (2) They built spartan, concrete residential blocks on their remaining property, subdivided them into scores of tiny rooms and rented them out to migrant workers from the countryside.
  • (3) Simultaneous measurements of biochemical and physiological events of compensatory renal hypertrophy were made in groups of white Spartan rats.
  • (4) The very first inkling of what would be dubbed the Bristol sound was the Wild Bunch's spartan treatment of Bacharach and David's classic The Look of Love , released in 1988 on 4th & Broadway.
  • (5) The American author Jonathan Franzen might justly be called a perfectionist: his latest opus, Freedom, took nine years of painstaking effort to complete inside a spartan writing studio – and is now being widely acclaimed as a modern masterpiece.
  • (6) Gaskill’s Spartan staging of Macbeth, with Alec Guinness and Simone Signoret in 1966, received dreadful notices that led to a ferocious tussle with the London critics.
  • (7) Opened last year by the Irish Youth Hostel Association ( anoige.ie ), its somewhat institutional architecture, utilitarian concrete floors and Ikea furnishings may be too spartan for some, but the bright interiors and views of Glencree valley more than compensated.
  • (8) Alfred Parsons (1864-1952) was noted for his vigour of mind and body and Spartan habits and his dramatic teaching.
  • (9) Nevertheless, again, unusually "normally" for a royal, he attended school, even if it was the notoriously spartan Gordonstoun.
  • (10) George Jameson, rallying with Reclaim Australia in a replica Spartan military outfit, said they weren’t racists and had come together to stand up for freedom of speech.
  • (11) There's a suggestion the player will also take control of another Spartan investigating the series hero – more on that later.
  • (12) His later years, as the preachments of abolitionists and slaveholders reached their shrill adumbration of bloody war, were marked, even made notorious, by his fiery championing of John Brown, whom he had briefly met in Concord, finding him "a man of great common sense, deliberate and practical", endowed with "tact and prudence" and the Spartan habits and spare diet of a soldier.
  • (13) The episode is illustrative of Sontag's emotionally spartan childhood, which produced a self-contained but not insular child.
  • (14) Orwell's letters were bucolic - lots of stuff about horses, flowers and fishing - but the references to the house suggest that 'spartan' may be too generous a description.
  • (15) For now, Halo spin-off Halo: Spartan Assault remains exclusive to Windows-powered device.
  • (16) *** Five hours before the People’s PPE meeting, I pitch up at a grim-looking office block next to Euston station, buzz the entry phone and go up a couple of flights of stairs into a warren of spartan rooms.
  • (17) 10.10am: Barry Glendenning's paper view has arrived to round up the Fourth Estate's perspective this morning: In the Mirror, Oliver Holt is busily fighting John Terry's corner, claiming that the former skipper deserves credit, not opprobium, for being the only England player prepared to speak out about the "spartan regime they have been living under for the last five weeks".
  • (18) Apart, perhaps, from Skipper's spartan office which looks out over a car park and the windowless neighbouring building of the department of work and pensions.
  • (19) It was here that he refined his incomparable talent for drawing, but in his early years he was drawn to history painting – young Spartans , Semiramis – and the dreamy style of symbolists such as Pierre Puvis de Chavannes and Gustave Moreau .
  • (20) It portrays the heroic endeavours of 300 Spartans, under King Leonidas, who are shown resisting an invading force of 120,000 Persian troops led by Emperor Xerxes.