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abstemiousness

NOUN
  1. moderation in eating and drinking
  2. restricted to bare necessities

How To Use abstemiousness In A Sentence

  • It turns out Fields was a huge admirer of hers, but their approaches to comedy, and life, were poles apart - Fields being a master of excess and West a paragon of abstemiousness.
  • The fact is that I am a little overfed; but the stranger in the tropics cannot eat like a native, and my abstemiousness is a surprise. Two Years in the French West Indies
  • Yet Italy's society is hardly less dynamic than Spain's, so other factors must explain its comparative abstemiousness. The Dry Character of Italian Social Life
  • In other words, Macfadden preached a sort of liberated abstemiousness -- as the subtitle of "Mr. America" has it, he "transformed the nation through sex, salad and the ultimate starvation diet. Strong Circulation
  • We have 3 versions of Dr Cooper's medicinal compound this time - one brewed by Pete, one by Steve and one by Jasper - and we think that with proper abstemiousness abstention? or maybe that's just for the polliesthe supply will get us to Dutch. NASA Watch: Keith Cowing: April 2008 Archives
  • January's abstemiousness has grown in relation to Christmas's excess, an increasingly commercialised response to the very commercialism that we're all feeling so hung over from. Broken resolutions can be good for you | Hephzibah Anderson
  • In the meantime, after this one relapse at Benicia, I went on with my abstemiousness, primarily because I didn't want to drink. Chapter 23
  • He does not seem to smoke or drink, although he has downplayed his abstemiousness since joining the drinks group.
  • Jake made up for any parental abstemiousness though.
  • But this here New York was inaugurated on the idea of abstemiousness in regard to the parts of speech. Sixes and Sevens
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