total abstainer

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Sam Snead, whose fluent style has lasted longer than any other man’s in the history of the game, was reduced to putting between his legs, croquet fashion—and he was a total abstainer for years.

From Golf Digest • Mar. 31, 2020

Several months ago white-haired George Lansbury, total abstainer, First Commissioner of Public Works, suddenly decided that it was only right and proper for women M. P.'s to have the privilege of bathing in Parliament also.

From Time Magazine Archive

I am, as everyone knows, a vegetarian, and a total abstainer from tobacco, alcohol and soap.

From Time Magazine Archive

Few sportsmen will credit this sentimental tale in which the "love and patience" of two boys turn a born biscuit eater into a total abstainer and top-notch bird dog.

From Time Magazine Archive

For the greater part of his literary life he seems to have been almost a total abstainer, indulging only in the very strongest of tea.

From Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by Saintsbury, George