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
Gilt's experience contrasts sharply with reports of post-quake spending abstemiousness.
From BusinessWeek ● Apr. 14, 2011
It is asserted that the climate itself induces temperance in drink and abstemiousness in diet.
From Our Italy by Charles Dudley Warner
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