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

Oh, very well, abstemiousness generally results in comprehension, only in this case comprehension is not so simple.

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 by Various