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abstainer

noun as in teetotaler

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Coffee and tea drinkers had a 28 percent lower risk of dementia and a 32 percent lower risk of stroke compared with abstainers.

A total abstainer, I had, I am thankful to say, strength enough to resist the temptation thus adroitly thrust upon me.

The preacher of the Spital sermon this year is to be a life-long abstainer, the Bishop of Carlisle.

A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.

They absolve the sinner who can plead, "I was in love," more easily than the self-righteous abstainer.

He has taken ale or porter at times, "under doctor's counsel," but in general he has been an "abstainer."

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On this page you'll find 11 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to abstainer, such as: teetotaler, nondrinker, teetotalist, abstinent, ascetic, and prohibitionist.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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