Ascetic

[ə'setɪk] or [ə'sɛtɪk]

解釋/意思:

(adj.) 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' .

(adj.) pertaining to or characteristic of an ascetic or the practice of rigorous self-discipline; 'ascetic practices' .

塞西莉整理--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(a.) Extremely rigid in self-denial and devotions; austere; severe.

(n.) In the early church, one who devoted himself to a solitary and contemplative life, characterized by devotion, extreme self-denial, and self-mortification; a hermit; a recluse; hence, one who practices extreme rigor and self-denial in religious things.

尤金伲亚整理

同義詞及近義詞：

a. Austere, rigid, severe, stern, puritanical, uncompromising.

n. Recluse, hermit, anchoret, solitary, solitaire, EREMITE.

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解釋/意思:

n. one who rigidly denies himself ordinary sensual gratifications for conscience' sake one who aims to compass holiness through self-mortification the flesh being considered as the seat of sin and therefore to be chastened: a strict hermit.—adjs. Ascet′ic -al excessively rigid: austere: recluse.—adv. Ascet′ically.—n. Ascet′icism.

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