Ascetic and Monk

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Ascetic

Ascetic noun - Someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline.

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Monk is a synonym for ascetic in recluse topic. In some cases you can use "Monk" instead a noun "Ascetic", when it comes to topics like holy man, holy person, abstainer.

Nearby Word: asceticism

Monk

Monk noun - A male religious living in a cloister and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work.

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Ascetic is a synonym for monk in holy man topic. You can use "Ascetic" instead a noun "Monk", if it concerns topics such as holy person.

Nearby Words: monkish, monkery, monkhood

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medieval	medieval ascetic	medieval monk
new	new ascetic	new monk
religious	religious ascetic	religious monk

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Samara in Mass Effect 2, an asari Matriarch who is an ascetic warrior-monk hunting down a mass-murderer who is her daughter.

Source: Zen Survivor
Kilik is a Warrior Monk who no longer has a real home to go back to and travels the land stamping out evil; one of Sun Wukong's titles was Xingzhe, meaning "ascetic" (as in a wandering monk).

Source: Monkey King Lite
A flashback then shows "Gabriel the Ascetic", a medieval monk played by the same actor who plays the pastor, crafting a statue of Truth.But that's not what this film is remembered for, to the extent that it is remembered.

Source: Film / Hypocrites

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