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n. A person who renounces material comforts and leads a life of austere self-discipline, especially as an act of religious devotion.

adj. Leading a life of self-discipline and self-denial, especially for spiritual improvement. See Synonyms at severe.

adj. Pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic; self-denying and austere: an ascetic existence.

adj. Of or relating to ascetics; characterized by rigorous self-denial or self-discipline; austere; abstinent; involving a withholding of physical pleasure.

n. One who is devoted to the practice of self-denial, either through seclusion or stringent abstinence.

adj. Extremely rigid in self-denial and devotions; austere; severe.

n. In the early church, one who devoted himself to a solitary and contemplative life, characterized by devotion, extreme self-denial, and self-mortification; a hermit; a recluse; hence, one who practices extreme rigor and self-denial in religious things.

Practising special acts of self-denial as a religious exercise; seeking holiness through self-mortification; hence, rigidly abstinent and self-restrained as to appetites and passions.

Hence Unduly strict or rigid in religious exercises or mortifications; severe; austere.

Pertaining to or resembling the ascetics.

n. In the early Christian church, one who practised unusual self-denial and devotion; in modern usage, also one who retires from the customary business of life and engages in pious exercises; a hermit; a recluse.

n. plural [capitalized] The title of certam books on devout exercises: as, the Ascetics of St. Basil.

adj. pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic or the practice of rigorous self-discipline

n. someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline

adj. practicing great self-denial

"And yet there was a certain ascetic lengthening of the lines of his face."

abstemious   

self-gratifying    gluttonous    sensuous    convivial    bon vivant    glutton    drinker   

abstemious    hermit   

ascetical    asceticism   

austere    severe    hermit    recluse    abstemious    mortified    fakir    stylite    yogi   

Athletic    Peripatetic    acetic    aesthetic    alphabetic    anesthetic    apathetic    apologetic    arithmetic    athletic   

mystic    hermit    buddhist    monastic    austere    sage    monk    recluse    religious    pilgrim