OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 25831

fakir

/fəˈkiɹ/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
fakir
An ascetic mendicant, especially one who performs feats of endurance or apparent magic.
The preposterous altruism too![…]Resist not evil. It is an insane immolation of self—as bad intrinsically as fakirs stabbing themselves or anchorites warping their spines in caves…
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