noun
someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline
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adjective
pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic or the practice of rigorous self-discipline
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- ascetic practices
adjective
practicing great self-denial
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- Be systematically ascetic...do...something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it"- William James
- a desert nomad's austere life
- a spartan diet
- a spartan existence