0 the condition of living without unnecessary things and without comfort, with limited money or goods, or a practice, habit, or experience that is typical of this:
1 Austerity is also a bad economic condition that does not allow luxuries:
2 a situation in which a government spends as little money as possible because of bad economic conditions:
One notices a tendency to expect from these parents austerities and a willingness to make sacrifices of a very severe character.
There must surely be some limit to the enjoyment of such austerities.
Such austerities are undertaken according to the physical and mental limits of the individual ascetic.
Only the practice of austerities and self-control can modify or alleviate the consequences of karma.
Whatever time could be spared from his active duties was given up to contemplation, to fastings, watchings, disciplines, and other austerities.
He immersed himself in spiritual pursuits like meditation and austerities and his health broke down.
He had recently retired from teaching and wanted to put behind him the more rigid austerities of university life.
Finally, that happened after thirty years of austerities and intense searching.
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簡樸(的生活), 艱苦(的生活), (國家開支上的)緊縮,縮減…
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简朴(的生活), 艰苦(的生活), (国家开支上的)紧缩,缩减…
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