abstemiousness
Example Sentences
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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
Mr. Islam, the former Cat Stevens, left pop stardom for a life of abstemiousness and Islamic study.
From New York Times ● Apr. 11, 2014
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
Their conduct is perfectly in harmony with that of the theoretic friends of cold water, plain dress, and abstemiousness in general.
From Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages Including a System of Vegetable Cookery by William A. (William Andrus) Alcott
