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
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
Gilt's experience contrasts sharply with reports of post-quake spending abstemiousness.
From BusinessWeek ● Apr. 14, 2011
The subtraction he makes in his food will more likely benefit his health in the long run and promote longevity, for, in the wise words of old Galen, "abstemiousness is the best medicine."
From Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities by Charles Jerome Callan
