abstainer

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• Abstainer: a weak person who yield to the temptation of deny himself a pleasure.
• I have been a hardxss crocs abstainer for the last 5 years or so. A Big Croc of...
• Re Lent, Bierce put it best: the abstainer is a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. "I blog for the hell of it, to express myself, and to figure out the world as I go along, the best I can."
• The real winners of the 2001 election were the abstainers, with 41% of the poll.
• Not that one can ever become a total abstainer from spending: one's landlord on quarter-day would remain coldly unmoved by a letter saying that one had signed the pledge. Try Anything Twice
• The government sent 30,000 troops and 20,000 police officers into the Altiplano region, home to many of the Indigenous peasants who were crucial to last October's rebellion, in a clear attempt to intimidate potential abstainers.
• An abstainer "abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others. Lacerating Wit, Seasoned Cynic
• The total abstainer class was not "nursed" or favored to produce How to Live Rules for Healthful Living Based on Modern Science
• He said ‘all the good studies’ of drinkers versus teetotallers suggested adults drinking one to two units per day, equivalent to one to two standard glasses of wine or half-pints of beer, had a 20% lower risk of stroke than abstainers.
• They were also fanatical total abstainers; not only was St. Benedict's kindly concession of a hemina of wine rejected, but the vineyards were rooted up and the wine-presses and vessels destroyed. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip