ascetic
nouns
someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline
adjectives
pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic or the practice of rigorous self-discipline
"ascetic practices"
practicing great self-denial
"Be systematically ascetic...do...something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it"- William James; "a desert nomad's austere life"; "a spartan diet"; "a spartan existence"
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