ascetic
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He was neither financially stable nor ascetic enough to commit to the artist’s lot without the remarkable self-sacrifice of his wife, Annalee.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025
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
Disillusioned by the impermanence of life, Siddhartha engaged in six years of ascetic practice and attained enlightenment at the age of 35 in Bodh Gaya in northeast India.
From Seattle Times • May 11, 2024
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
Siddhartha now also realized why he had struggled in vain with this Self when he was a Brahmin and an ascetic.
From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse
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