Article rejected quotes about conservative man leading disciplined life (7)
I believe the answer is:
ascetic
'man leading disciplined life' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both people as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps there's a link between them I don't understand?
'article rejected quotes about conservative' is the wordplay.
'article' becomes 'a' (indefinite article).
'rejected' says the letters should be written in reverse.
'quotes' becomes 'cites' ('cite' can be a synonym of 'quote'**).
'about' indicates putting letters inside.
'conservative' becomes 'c' (abbreviation commonly used in UK politics).
'cites' enclosing 'c' is 'citecs'.
'citecs' backwards is 'scetic'.
'a'+'scetic'='ASCETIC'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for ascetic that I've seen before include "Religiously self-disciplined" , "Self-denying person who shuns ordinary pleasures" , "recluse" , "One who practises extreme self-discipline" , "Severely self-disciplined" .)