teetotalism

• Cleanliness and teetotalism were up there beside godliness in her scale of values: Boys emerging from the Gentleman's conveniences in Trafalgar Street would be asked to show her that they'd washed their hands, and the smell of beer on the breath of a passing labourer would elicit the outraged cry of "Drunken beast Give it a rest, old woman," said one of her victims. —  EQMM, Sep/Oct 2005
• I am no advocate for teetotalism, for I think a man who can enjoy a moderate glass is a better one than his brother who has to drink water in order that he may not yield to the overpowering 'tempitation'—to quote Mr. Huntley Wright—to get drunk! —  The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent
• On nomination day he suddenly changed from a friendly attitude toward whiskey—which was the popular attitude—to uncompromising teetotalism, and went absolutely dry. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Chapters From My Autobiography, by Mark Twain.
• The difference is that Uma Bharati cannot sell her asceticism, vegetarianism, sexual abstinence, teetotalism, and her saffron wardrobe to any urban Indian. —  The Morningside Post
• Sad news that "a state dominated by teetotaling Mormons is willing to reconsider decades-old mores if it helps the economy" - teetotalism, both of which I hold to be heretical, but I hold considerable brief for —  西儒 ─ The Western Confucian

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