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
But this small gem in Italy’s heel is far from a haven of monkish abstemiousness.
From New York Times ● Aug. 8, 2013
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 Charles James Lever
