Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an abstinent manner; with abstinence.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb With abstinence.
Etymologies
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Examples
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'Mr. Thrale never will live abstinently, till he can persuade himself to live by rule [1307].
Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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'Mr. Thrale never will live abstinently, till he can persuade himself to live by rule [1307].
Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780 James Boswell 1767
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The "herbivores" - a trend in Japan of men who live abstinently and take women as friends instead of lovers - is often trotted out in articles about the fall of masculinity, the subtext being that once guys start to be emotionally nuanced part-time househusbands, they will no longer possess a primal drive for sex.
The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed MICAH TOUB 2010
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Paradise, how abstinently would he have walked by that tree!
Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel John Donne 1601
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