self-mortifying

Mount Omine was out there and on its slopes congregated the yamabushi, the wandering, self-mortifying adherents of this syncretic religion.

The Miko Lustbader, Eric 1984

In his personal life the saintly bishop was very ascetic and self-mortifying; he fasted frequently, and while the priests and clerics who lived with him were at their evening meal he would go, concealed by a hooded cloak, to pray in the churches of the city.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

But as soon as a brief respite had restored his strength, Bernard renewed his self-mortifying practices.

Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History 1906

All that was good in Puritanism has been retained by the modern spirit, while its narrowing and numbing features, its anti-human, self-mortifying, provincial side have passed or are passing in the regenerating sunlight of what one might call a spiritual paganism, which conceives of natural forces and natural laws as inherently pure and mysteriously sacred.

Vanishing Roads and Other Essays Richard Le Gallienne 1906

It is not self-mortifying, but it is dying with Christ.

Days of Heaven Upon Earth 1881

And happy those ladies and religious dames, characterized in 2 Tim.iii. 6, who can have such self-denying, thriving, able men for their confessors! and thrice happy those families, where they vouchsafe to take their Friday night's refreshments! and thereby demonstrate to the world what Christian abstinence, and what primitive, self-mortifying rigour there is in forbearing a dinner, that they may have the better stomach to their supper.

Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV. 1634-1716 1823

Across this picture of venerable and self-mortifying age, the first rays of the sun were now softly cast, lighting a dimmed eye and furrowed face with a look of brightness and peace.

The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish James Fenimore Cooper 1820

a widow's first mourning dresses are covered almost entirely with crape, a most costly and disagreeable material, easily ruined by the dampness and dust -- a sort of penitential and self-mortifying dress, and very ugly and very expensive.

Manners and Social Usages Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood

"but I now remember that the good people of the house have more than once spoken to me of him as a rigid and self-mortifying recluse."

Devereux — Volume 06 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

"but I now remember that the good people of the house have more than once spoken to me of him as a rigid and self-mortifying recluse."

Devereux — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838