ascetic

Example Sentences

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Consequently, any attempt to commend the ascetic practices of one religion to the other is fruitless.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 25, 2026

A hardline ascetic, Valentin won’t even alert the medics when he’s sick, in case they give him morphine.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 9, 2025

In early Christianity, spiritual warfare meant one was to resist the Devil by engaging in forms of ascetic behavior, mastering fleshly desires, and cultivating Christian virtues like humility, self-control, and love of enemies.

From Salon • Jan. 31, 2024

To become a sokushinbutsu, he began living in seclusion where he ate an ascetic diet of pine needles for nearly a decade.

From National Geographic • Jan. 19, 2024

I am still a Samana, he thought, still an ascetic and a beggar.

From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse