Meaning
禁欲的 (きんよくてき, kinyokuteki) is a bonus vocabulary word meaning “abstemious”.
Kanji in this word
Example sentences 7
お坊さんの生活は禁欲的だ
The monk's way of life is ascetic.
そのくらい彼は繊細で禁欲的な人間だった。
for he was a delicate and abstinent person.
シトー修道会の修道士は簡素で禁欲的な生活を送った。
The Cistercians led simple, austere lives.
修道者の独身主義には禁欲と宗教的熱情の意が含まれる.
Celibacy carries connotations of asceticism and religious fervor.
青年、壮年期においては妻のほか愛人を囲うなど享楽的な側面も見せたが、晩年は禁欲的な態度に徹した。
He showed a hedonistic side in his earlier days, and when he was middle aged, he had lovers other than his wife, but he was continent in his latter years.
また一方で、租税の確保や武家的な禁欲思想に基づいて、たびたび酒の売買、製造、移出入などを禁ずる政策が出された。
On the other hand, aiming to secure taxes and based on the asceticism of samurai, policies which forbade the trade, manufacturing, and transportation of sake were often implemented.
キリスト教が現れて、貧民に福音をもたらし、禁欲生活ではないにしても節度ある生活で実践的に時代の不品行に異議を申し立てたのです。
Christianity had appeared, offering the gospel to the poor, and, by moderation if not asceticism of life, practically protesting against the profligacy of the age.