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Spartan

adjective

Of or relating to or characteristic of Sparta or its people.

Resolute in the face of pain or danger or adversity.

Unsparing and uncompromising in discipline or judgment. Synonym: severe. "A hefty six-footer with a rather severe mien" , "A strict disciplinarian" , "A Spartan upbringing"

Practicing great self-denial. Synonyms: ascetic, ascetical, austere. "A desert nomad's austere life" , "A spartan diet" , "A spartan existence"

noun

A resident of Sparta.

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"Spartan" Quotes from Famous Books

... enough now. There was something Spartan about that girl. She had such an utter recklessness of exposure—it was in failure that ...

— Guy Livingstone; - or, 'Thorough' • George A. Lawrence

... to his children in their early years, but his attitude toward himself was truly Spartan. He never visited the theater, for instance, but sought his recreation in various spiritual practices and in reading the BHAGAVAD GITA. {FN1-7} Shunning all luxuries, he would cling to one old pair of shoes until they were useless. ...

— Autobiography of a YOGI • Paramhansa Yogananda

... has been burnt biscuit color by some warmer sun than England's; and yet there is, for a very subtle observer, a link between them. For she has a glass of water in her hand, and a rapidly clearing cloud of Spartan obstinacy on her tiny firm set mouth and quaintly squared eyebrows. If the least line of conscience could be traced between those eyebrows, an Evangelical might cherish some faint hope of finding her a sheep in wolf's clothing - for her frock is recklessly pretty - but as the cloud vanishes ...

— You Never Can Tell • [George] Bernard Shaw

... recovery of a leg sufficiently workable in the matter of climbing stairs, Dr. Farr's boarder had resigned the family couch in the sitting-room and had retired to his spartan chamber under the eaves. From its open window that night he watched the moon. Let nothing happen to the universe in the meantime, and there would be a full moon on Friday night. The professor hoped ...

— The Window-Gazer • Isabel Ecclestone Mackay

... it is only so in the process of eating in commons; a practice at least as antiquated as the collegiate halls of old England, where it still continues without producing, as far as we can learn, any of the Spartan virtues. A residence at Brook Farm does not involve either a community of money, of opinions or of sympathy. The motives which bring individuals there, may be as various as their numbers. In fact, the present residents are divisible into three distinct classes; and if ...

— Brook Farm • John Thomas Codman

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