Adjective:

ಕಂಬಳಿ-ಕಂಬಳಿ, ಕಠಿಣ ವೈರಾಗ್ಯ,

ascetic's Usage Examples:

She became a Christian in Rome and, leaving her son, Valerius Publicola, with a guardian, set off to Alexandria, accompanied by her servants, to join other Christian ascetics to visit the monks at Nitria.

It was the first time for a Jain ascetic to set foot in the state.

Yamabushi (山伏) (one who prostrates himself on the mountain) are Japanese mountain ascetic hermits.

branches, accepts the apologetic, dogmatic, exegetic, moral, juridical, ascetical, liturgical, and other conclusions reached by the ecclesiastical student.

The term refers to the practice of Buddhist monks observing asceticism to the point of death and entering mummification while alive.

The Kalpa Sūtra describes Mahavira"s asceticism in detail; from it, most of the ascetic practices (including the restraints.

"those without blemish") is a Sikh tradition of ascetics.

an English Anglican priest, spiritual director, author and lecturer on ascetical theology.

the high priest"s breastplate) in Islamic mythology, is an ascetic who succumbed to the Devil"s temptations and denied God.

little or no formal education; his spiritual authority and parrhesia (forthrightness) stemmed from his strict asceticism.

a more recent and colloquial usage for an ascetic who renounces worldly possessions, and has even been applied to non-Muslims.

Church Fathers, the ascetics and the common people who lived simply and virtuously in the provinces.

Synonyms:

abstainer, puritan, religious person, stylite,

Antonyms:

piggish, wolfish, piggy, hoggish, nonreligious person,