ascetic

• At present the profits of the many thriving institutions which cater for the ascetic are depleted by the maintenance of neat lawns and shrubberies and, inside, of the furniture of a private house and apparatus resembling that of a hospital. —  The Complete Stories of Evelyn Waugh
• The shape and expression of the many faces were various--ascetic, worldly, pale, red, round, thin, fat, oval; each one revealed the character of its owner. —  The Bishop's Secret
• He should have left marriage to those who were capable of nothing else; this would not have meant that he turn ascetic, for the ascetic is a voluptuary in disguise. —  Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians
• But what was in the author's mind was probably that all these vices and moral virtues are enumerated as such for all; and he slips in mental concentration as a virtue for the ascetic, meaning to include all the virtues he knows A few further illustrations from that special code which has won for itself a preeminent name, 'the law-book of Manu,'[26] will give in epitome the popular religion as taught to the masses; withal even better than this is taught in the S[=u]tras. —  The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow
• In the last years of his short life he sank into a torpor of superstition--ascetic, self-mortified, and rapt in a strange exaltation, like a medieval monk. —  Landmarks in French Literature

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