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Ascetical

adjective
1.
Pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic or the practice of rigorous self-discipline.  Synonym: ascetic.
2.
Practicing great self-denial.  Synonyms: ascetic, austere, spartan.  "A desert nomad's austere life" , "A spartan diet" , "A spartan existence"






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"Ascetical" Quotes from Famous Books



... the ordinary customs of his easy-going age, he would have presented no problem to the scientific mind. After consuming the fuel of the passions, he might have subsided into common calm, or have blunted the edge of inspiration, or have finished in some phase of madness or ascetical repentance. Such are the common categories of extinct volcanic temperaments. But the essential point about Michelangelo is that he never burned out, and never lost his manly independence, in spite of numerous ...
— The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti • John Addington Symonds



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