abstemiousness

You will make a vow of abstemiousness in food and drink.

As I became more aware of the disease, I tried harder to conceal it, putting on more public displays of abstemiousness.

Such optics are rarer now, for reasons that include abstemiousness, dying industries and a bar culture not always welcoming to women and minorities.

Lent was, historically, an annoying idea: take a time of year when there is nothing to eat anyway, and then dress up your abstemiousness as an article of faith.

Goaded by reporters’ questions about Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh’s memorable testimony last week — “I like beer! I still like beer!” — the teetotaling president offered an unsolicited thought on his own abstemiousness.