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

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

From New York Times • Apr. 11, 2014

Another popular error is, that a large amount of disease is due to overeating, and that abstemiousness in diet is either certain to secure health, or is, at all events, indispensable for this purpose.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various