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

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

Gilt's experience contrasts sharply with reports of post-quake spending abstemiousness.

From BusinessWeek • Apr. 14, 2011

Individuals who but a short half-hour before seemed to have made a hearty meal, testified by the ravenous exploits of their appetites to their former forbearance and abstemiousness.

From Jack Hinton The Guardsman by Lever, Charles James