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Ascetics roamed the countryside, wearing rags and begging for their meals, and the Buddha became one of them.

From The New Yorker • Jun. 29, 2015

Ascetics went for years without seeing or talking to another person.

From Time Magazine Archive

See Ascetics; Monasticism Angelo, Michael, in what he failed, ii.

From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) by Lecky, William Edward Hartpole

He read sermons on discipline, and hunted up passages in Church history that treated of the Ascetics of the second century.

From Jude the Obscure by Hardy, Thomas

They were, of course, denominated Ascetics, Zealous Ones, Elect, and also Philosophers; and they were distinguished from other Christians, not only by a different appellation, but by peculiarities of dress and demeanor.

From Luther Examined and Reexamined A Review of Catholic Criticism and a Plea for Revaluation by Dau, W. H. T. (William Herman Theodore)