Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality or habit of being temperate, especially in the use of food and drink.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of being abstemious, temperate, or sparing in the use of food and strong drinks. It expresses a greater degree of abstinence than
temperance .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun moderation in eating and drinking
- noun restricted to bare necessities
Etymologies
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Examples
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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.
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"But this here New York was inaugurated on the idea of abstemiousness in regard to the parts of speech.
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Yet Italy's society is hardly less dynamic than Spain's, so other factors must explain its comparative abstemiousness.
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In the meantime, after this one relapse at Benicia, I went on with my abstemiousness, primarily because I didn't want to drink.
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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.
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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."
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With a rich family and a father who owned a huge whaling fleet, Hetty was raised with an abstemiousness that belied their wealth but money was certainly of interest to her.
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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.
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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.
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Four years, or so, of abstemiousness, enable them to stand an election dinner; and there is no hope of broken heads among a score or two of quiet electors, who settle the business over a table.
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