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ascetic
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    He wasn't accustomed to being talked back to, certainly not by women. ... I had turned bold and adventurous, and he even more ascetic and emotionally austere. We had become natural opponents.  (source)
    ascetic = self-denying of comfort
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    In ancient Greece, too, there were many people who believed in an ascetic, or religiously secluded, way of life for the salvation of the soul.  (source)
    ascetic = someone who practices self-denial (especially to encourage spiritual growth)
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    There was something ascetic in her look, which was augmented by the extreme plainness of a straight-skirted, black, stuff dress, a starched linen collar, hair combed away from the temples, and the nun-like ornament of a string of ebony beads and a crucifix.  (source)
    ascetic = severely plain -- like one who practices self-denial (often to encourage spiritual growth)
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    Hester sought not to acquire anything beyond a subsistence, of the plainest and most ascetic description, for herself, and a simple abundance for her child.  (source)
    ascetic = basic (without luxury -- as of someone who practices self-denial)
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    In college McCandless began emulating Tolstoy's asceticism and moral rigor to a degree that first astonished, and then alarmed, those who were close to him.  (source)
    asceticism = practice of self-denial
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    Most of it he contributed anonymously to the monks of a local monastery—humble ascetics who had dedicated their lives to raising German police dogs.†  (source)
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    Living rather ascetically, travelling third-class ... and penalizing himself for any extravagances, he maintained a qualified financial independence.  (source)
    ascetically = in the manner of someone who practices self-denial
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    It is told that Pannalal the Sage, having sharpened his mind with meditation and divers asceticisms, had divined the operation of the lock and entered Hellwell, spending a day and a night beneath the mountain.†  (source)
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    He had lank, unruly hair and the gray, meager complexion of an ascetic.  (source)
    ascetic = someone who practices self-denial
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    Guitar, eschewing his recent asceticism, allowed himself the pleasure of waking up old dreams:  (source)
    asceticism = practice of extreme self-denial
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    Love, say the ascetics, reveals our shameful kinship with the beasts.  (source)
    ascetics = people who practices self-denial
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    His suits fitted as though he had borrowed them from a stout friend, and his face, seldom suggestive of his profession, was now not at all so; it could have been that of an ascetic absorbed in occult pursuits.  (source)
    ascetic = someone who practices self-denial
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    I can't help thinking of the Hippolytus of Euripides, where the early licentiousness of Theseus is probably responsible for the asceticism of the son that helps bring about the tragedy that ruins them all.  (source)
    asceticism = practice of extreme self-denial
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