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as·cet·ic  (-stk)
n.
A person who renounces material comforts and leads a life of austere self-discipline, especially as an act of religious devotion.
adj.
1. Leading a life of self-discipline and self-denial, especially for spiritual improvement. See Synonyms at severe.
2. Pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic; self-denying and austere: an ascetic existence.
[Late Greek asktikos, from Greek askts, practitioner, hermit, monk, from askein, to work.]
as·ceti·cal·ly adv.
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Adv.1.ascetically - in an ascetic manner; "she lived ascetically in a small house all by herself"
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