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

But this small gem in Italy’s heel is far from a haven of monkish abstemiousness.

From New York Times • Aug. 8, 2013

At the period to which we refer, the literary society of Edinburgh was by no means distinguished for its abstemiousness.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 11 by Wilson, John Mackay