ascetic

a person of ascetic habits.

an ascetic life of prayer, fasting, and manual labour.

everyone, bar a few ascetics, thinks it desirable.

The hermit followed an ascetic life-style.

He inspired other ascetics and is called Simeon the Elder to distinguish him from a 6th-century stylite of the same name.

He imagined another kind of religion and became very ascetic.

If we deliberately seek the absolute bottom, we become ascetics.

It has nothing to do with any ascetic personal style or with being self-effacing.

But in an example to ascetics everywhere, that meal need not be dreary just because it is spare.

Diogenes disciplined himself through rigorous ascetic training and learned to live life without any luxuries — physical or psychological.

I am still a Samana, he thought, I am still an ascetic and beggar.

Recently, the president ascribed the ascension of crime to ascetics.

But we’re not talking about fun populist religion, we’re talking about old-school ascetic Buddhism.

In Jesus' time it was a gathering place for itinerant religious ascetics and herders of the desert.

And it is the same in other directions; you will find us neither profligate nor ascetic.