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

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

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

From BusinessWeek • Apr. 14, 2011

But, as we have before intimated, this temperate habit was by no means confined to ardent spirit alone; the same abstemiousness characterized his daily meal.

From Biography of Rev. Hosea Ballou by Ballou, Maturin Murray