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Ascetic Severe Self Discipline Self Denial Uh Set Ik Adjective Practicing Noun

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ascetic /uh-SET-ik/
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adjective
Practicing severe self-discipline or self-denial.

noun
One who practices severe self-discipline or self-denial.

[From Greek askesis (exercise or training), from askein (to exercise or work). Earliest documented use: 1646.]

“This exhibition of roughly 50 paintings lays out the magpie path that took Mondrian from stolid burgher to ascetic modernist.” - Michael Prodger; From Windmills to Modernism; New Statesman (London, UK); May 30, 2014. 

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