abstemiousness

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You will make a vow of abstemiousness in food and drink.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 28, 2021

But that kind of civic resilience depends on funding effective government services—the very thing Cuomo’s abstemiousness would prevent.

From Slate • Sep. 25, 2020

For a long time, she was convinced that producing her best work required a monkish commitment to abstemiousness and isolation.

From The New Yorker • Jul. 2, 2018

But this small gem in Italy’s heel is far from a haven of monkish abstemiousness.

From New York Times • Aug. 8, 2013

Gluttony, 269; sin opposed to abstemiousness, 2470 b; ways of committing gluttony, 2471; sinfulness of gluttony, 2472 a; gluttony as capital sin, 2473 11.

From Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities by Callan, Charles Jerome