abstemiousness

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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

Gilt's experience contrasts sharply with reports of post-quake spending abstemiousness.

From BusinessWeek • Apr. 14, 2011

The Virtue of Purity.—As abstemiousness and sobriety preside over the pleasures of the self-preservative instinct, so purity governs those that pertain to the species-preservative instinct.

From Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities by Callan, Charles Jerome