Converse of object

• inculcate: It inculcated universal asceticism and social leveling in its crudest form.

• practice: Others regarded the whole of the material world as wicked and practiced a rigorous asceticism to punish the flesh.

Adjective modifier

• extreme: The abbey he founded at Mynyw modeled a life of extreme asceticism modeled on that of the Egyptian monks.

• severe: The aim, however, is not to achieve a haughty puritanism or to become priggish; nor is a severe asceticism considered desirable.

• rigid: Rigid asceticism that paints all pleasure as somehow inherently wrong is another false distortion of biblical discipline.

• rigorous: Others regarded the whole of the material world as wicked and practiced a rigorous asceticism to punish the flesh.

• strict: This involved a regimen of strict asceticism and rejection of the things of the world.

Noun used with modifier

• mountain: Following this he spent 11 years studying martial arts and mountain asceticism with Japanese monks.