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Abstinent   /ˈæbstənənt/   Listen
Abstinent

adjective
1.
Self-restraining; not indulging an appetite especially for food or drink.  Synonym: abstentious.





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"Abstinent" Quotes from Famous Books



... in my early youth I was overmuch religious and vigilant, and scrupulously pious and abstinent. One night I sat up in attendance on my father, on whom be God's mercy, never once closed my eyes during the whole night, and held the precious Koran open on my lap, while the company around us were fast asleep. I said to my father: "Not an individual ...
— Persian Literature, Volume 2, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The - Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan • Anonymous
... a hundred? Of ten? Or are tracts to be distributed only to those who will find their doctrine agreeable, and are the Society's colporteurs to be instructed that a Temperance essay is the proper thing for a total-abstinent infidel, and a sermon on the Atonement for a distilling deacon? If the aim of the Society be only to convert men from sins they have no mind to, and to convince them of errors to which they have no temptation, they might as well be spending their money to persuade schoolmasters that two and two ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Number 9, July, 1858 • Various


Words linked to "Abstinent" :   abstinence, mortal, teetotaller, abstainer, individual, teetotaler, teetotalist, drinker, abstentious, person, soul, abstain, someone, somebody, nondrinker, abstemious


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