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- adjective
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- without adornment; bare; severely simple; ascetic [Princeton Review]
- severely and strictly moral; having no pleasures or comforts [Barron]
- markedly simple or unadorned [Taisha]
- severely moral and strict; simple and plain [Nandigam]
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