asceticadjective
uk/əˈset.ɪk/us/əˈset̬.ɪk/avoiding physical pleasures and living a simple life, often for religious reasons:
They live a very ascetic life.
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Religious beliefs & atheistic beliefs
- agnostic
- animism
- anticlerical
- atheist
- credo
- creed
- cult
- doctrine
- faith can move mountains idiom
- fetish
- heresy
- monotheism
- mysticism
- orthodoxy
- pagan
- religiously
- secular humanism
- shibboleth
- theism
- theology
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ascetically
adverb uk/əˈset.ɪ.kəl.i/us/əˈset̬.ɪ.kəl.i/
asceticism
noun [ U ] uk/əˈset.ɪ.sɪ.zəm/us/əˈset̬.ə.sɪ.zəm/
asceticnoun [ C ]
uk/əˈset.ɪk/us/əˈset̬.ɪk/someone who lives an ascetic life, often for religious reasons:
He lived as an ascetic.
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Religious people: monks & nuns
- abbess
- abbey
- abbot
- anchorite
- benedictine
- flagellant
- Franciscan
- friar
- friary
- habit
- hermit
- monasticism
- monk
- mother
- novice
- nun
- priory
- sister
- Trappist monk
- veil
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