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gymnosophist

/jim-nos-uh-fist/US // dʒɪmˈnɒs ə fɪst //UK // (dʒɪmˈnɒsəfɪst) //

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 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.