gymnosophist
/jim-nos-uh-fist/US // dʒɪmˈnɒs ə fɪst //UK // (dʒɪmˈnɒsəfɪst) //
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Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : one of a group of Jainist philosophers, existing from ancient times to c1000, characterized by refusal to wear clothes and the abandonment of caste marks; a member of the Digambara sect.
Examples
So much of truth is got from being a gymnosophist and regarding your own toes with aloof abstraction on a sunny Christmas morning.
Opposite Julian stood a lean man with a coppery skin; it was the gymnosophist—the naked sage—assistant of Maximus.
Two islands in India, one called Brahmin, and the other Gymnosophist.
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