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

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

From BusinessWeek • Apr. 14, 2011

And where has Don’s touchy-feely journal-keeping and quasi abstemiousness landed him?

From New York Times • Sep. 27, 2010

Nor can this abstemiousness be accounted for by climate, for the native of Thibet, under a much more rigorous sky, displays the same quality.

From The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)