Term: monasticism: asceticism as a form of religious life; usually conducted in a community under a common rule and characterized by celibacy and poverty and obedience
Broader: austerity: the trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures) | Unrelated: quasi contract: a contract created by law for reasons of justice without any expression of assent
Broader: austerity: the trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures) | Unrelated: rider: a clause that is appended to a legislative bill
Broader: austerity: the trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures) | Unrelated: badgering: the act of harassing someone
Broader: austerity: the trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures) | Unrelated: b-flat clarinet: the ordinary clarinet with a middle range
Broader: austerity: the trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures) | Unrelated: acrostichum: in some classification systems placed in family Polypodiaceae
Broader: austerity: the trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures) | Unrelated: kestrel: small Old World falcon that hovers in the air against a wind
Broader: austerity: the trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures) | Unrelated: central powers: in World War I the alliance of Germany and Austria-Hungary and other nations allied with them in opposing the Allies
Broader: austerity: the trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures) | Unrelated: ectoparasite: any external parasitic organism (as fleas)
Broader: austerity: the trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures) | Unrelated: duchess: the wife of a duke or a woman holding ducal title in her own right
Broader: austerity: the trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures) | Unrelated: solitaire: extinct flightless bird related to the dodo