Ascetic Meaning. Avoiding physical pleasures and living a simple life often for religious reasons. The condition practice or mode of life of an ascetic.
From The Century Dictionary. A person who renounces material comforts and leads a life of austere self-discipline especially as an act of religious devotion. Avoiding physical pleasures and living a simple life often for religious reasons.
The so-called Desert Fathers were hermits who lived an ascetic life of fasting studying and prayer.
Mar 30 2021 Definition of ascetic. She has never been close to her ascetic workaholic father. Sufism emphasises the more mystical and ascetic aspects of the religion. The first two come from the writings of visionary.
