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   ascetic

   /əˈsɛtɪk/

   adjective

   • 1. characterized by severe self-discipline and abstention from all forms of indulgence, typically for religious reasons: "an ascetic life of prayer, fasting, and manual labour"

   noun

   • 1. a person who follows an ascetic life.

   Word Origin mid 17th century: from medieval Latin asceticus or Greek askētikos, from askētēs ‘monk’, from askein ‘to exercise’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. ascetically adverb

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