Thesaurus / astringency
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
Its taste is saltish, with a degree of roughness and astringency.
ELEMENTS OF THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF CHYMISTRY, 5TH ED.PIERRE JOSEPH MACQUER
If, then, mineral acids tend to lessen the diarrhoea of cholera, they act by their astringency and not by their acidity.
The filtered liquor had scarcely any astringency to the taste, and was of a very pale colour.
Its astringency is due to the presence of tannic and gallic acids.
The taste was rather pleasant at first, but left an astringency behind that scarcely tempted one to try a second time.
As a cider apple, this appears to possess great merit, combining a slight degree of astringency, with much sweetness.
BRITISH POMOLOGYROBERT HOGG
In this process the acid of the tea acts upon the copper, and causes that astringency which we remark in all the China teas.
THE COMMERCIAL PRODUCTS OF THE VEGETABLE KINGDOMP. L. SIMMONDS
Austere refers to a flavor more or less sour with some astringency.
THE PEARS OF NEW YORKU. P. HEDRICK
On account of its astringency it has been used in dysentery, hemorrhage, and other conditions requiring an astringent substance.
Skin medium to thin, somewhat tender, contains a small amount of light red pigment and some astringency.
THE GRAPES OF NEW YORKU. P. HEDRICK
WORDS RELATED TO ASTRINGENCY
- abnegation
- abstemiousness
- abstinence
- asceticism
- astringency
- austerity
- conservatism
- constraint
- continence
- control
- discretion
- dryness
- eschewal
- forbearance
- forgoing
- frugality
- golden mean
- happy medium
- measure
- moderateness
- moderation
- moderatism
- mortification
- prohibition
- prudence
- reasonableness
- refrainment
- restraint
- sacrifice
- self-control
- self-denial
- self-deprivation
- self-discipline
- sobriety
- stoicism
- teetotalism
- uninebriation
- unintoxication
- abnegation
- abstemiousness
- abstinence
- asceticism
- astringency
- austerity
- conservatism
- constraint
- continence
- control
- discretion
- dryness
- eschewal
- forbearance
- forgoing
- frugality
- golden mean
- happy medium
- measure
- moderateness
- moderation
- moderatism
- mortification
- prohibition
- prudence
- reasonableness
- refrainment
- restraint
- sacrifice
- self-control
- self-denial
- self-deprivation
- self-discipline
- soberness
- sobriety
- stoicism
- uninebriation
- unintoxication
- abnegation
- abstemiousness
- asceticism
- astringency
- austerity
- conservatism
- constraint
- continence
- control
- discretion
- eschewal
- forbearance
- forgoing
- frugality
- golden mean
- happy medium
- measure
- moderateness
- moderation
- moderatism
- mortification
- prohibition
- prudence
- reasonableness
- refrainment
- restraint
- sacrifice
- self-control
- self-denial
- self-deprivation
- self-discipline
- soberness
- sobriety
- stoicism
- teetotalism
- uninebriation
- unintoxication
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