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

Mr. Islam, the former Cat Stevens, left pop stardom for a life of abstemiousness and Islamic study.

From New York Times • Apr. 11, 2014

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

Of course, everybody who knew Henty could, all his life through, testify to his perfect abstemiousness.

From George Alfred Henty The Story of an Active Life by Fenn, George Manville