ascetic
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Turnbull may have better success in bringing often ascetical Liberal colleagues with him by dressing climate change policies as a tool to offset a slowing Australian economy, analysts said.
From Reuters • Sep. 14, 2015
The dangers of intellectual pride are many and grave, and we do well to discipline ourselves and our students in the moral and ascetical controls of this as of all other vices.
From Time Magazine Archive
They have studied these matters intensely, whereas far too much of our ascetical literature echoes the monastic viewpoint of life in the religious community.
From Time Magazine Archive
In 1084 Bruno and his six companions presented themselves before the bishop of Grenoble and explained to him their desire to lead an ascetical life in a solitary place.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" by Various
Almost every day we find ascetical works published which contain many inaccuracies of the kind described.
From Light and Peace Instructions for devout souls to dispel their doubts and allay their fears by Quadrupani, Carlo Giuseppe
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