ascetic
noun
a person who dedicates their life to a pursuit of contemplative ideals and practices extreme self-denial or self-mortification for religious reasons.
unascetic
-
a word derived from
ascetic.
Example Sentences
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And in two or three of the clergymen around her she believed, finding in them a flavour of the unascetic godliness of ancient days which was gratifying to her palate.
From He Knew He Was Right by Anthony Trollope
The apparent contradiction is at once obvious between the ascetic consummation of his ethics and his unascetic life, carefully occupied in its latter part with rules for the preservation of his naturally robust health.
From Schopenhauer by Thomas Whittaker
