abstemiousness

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

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 28, 2021

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

At the end of December, in his WSJ column, McInerney published a list of 10 New Year’s resolutions, and this selective abstemiousness held a spot at No. 3.

From Slate • May 5, 2012

The fact that abstemiousness and rigid conformity to the “simple life” 283 are not coincidents of longevity, but contributory to it, should be now common knowledge.

From Household Administration Its Place in the Higher Education of Women by Various