Adjective : an abstemious life. ,an abstemious diet. From Dictionary.com.
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. From Wordnik.com. [Two Years in the French West Indies] Reference
"But this here New York was inaugurated on the idea of abstemiousness in regard to the parts of speech. From Wordnik.com. [Sixes and Sevens] Reference
These are events not noted for their abstemiousness. From Wordnik.com. [Black eyed Bishops] Reference
Breath is conquered by abstemiousness of diet O king. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
Neither will we be driven into a quiddling abstemiousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860] Reference
“Their singular abstemiousness and temperance,” said De. From Wordnik.com. [Ivanhoe] Reference
The very thin woman embodies extreme self-denial, discipline, and abstemiousness. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-09-01] Reference
You should avoid the two extremes of gluttony and daily fasting and abstemiousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Doctrine and Practice of Yoga] Reference
But every competitor in an athletic contest practises abstemiousness in all directions. From Wordnik.com. ["Say Fellows—" Fifty Practical Talks with Boys on Life's Big Issues] Reference
The recluse did not seem to cultivate the duty of abstemiousness, but he maintained silence. From Wordnik.com. [The Forest of Vazon A Guernsey Legend of the Eighth Century] Reference
Maybe judges should work hard and selflessly at a job made boring by intellectual abstemiousness. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-02-01] Reference
Lord Lowborough was quite as remarkable for his abstemiousness for some time before you married him, as he is now. From Wordnik.com. [The Tenant of Wildfell Hall] Reference
The Orientals eat fewer meals than we do, and in their abstemiousness they set us an example we should do well to follow. From Wordnik.com. [No Animal Food and Nutrition and Diet with Vegetable Recipes] Reference
A striking instance of abstemiousness is that of Cornaro, a Venetian nobleman, who died in the year 1566 at the age of 98. From Wordnik.com. [The Chemistry of Food and Nutrition] Reference
The Duke de Choiseul being informed of the circumstance, ordered the boy before him, and enquired the reason of his abstemiousness. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Three Hundred Anecdotes Historical, Literary, and Humorous—A New Selection] Reference
He advanced his bony hand, gnarled and mean with useless abstemiousness and miserable abnegations, and revolved the button in the concave. From Wordnik.com. [The Flaw in the Sapphire] Reference
His constitution was delicate and infirm; and, notwithstanding his temperance and general abstemiousness, his health was often interrupted. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 352, January 17, 1829] Reference
We do not copy their silence or their abstemiousness, nor that invariable mindfulness of his own personal dignity which always adheres to a. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of all countries] Reference
His abstemiousness caused them uneasiness, even alarm. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Slaves] Reference
Anna Belle's forced abstemiousness had ceased to afflict her. From Wordnik.com. [Jewel] Reference
Montagu did not share the abstemiousness of his brother of Warwick. From Wordnik.com. [The Last of the Barons — Complete] Reference
In self-examination temperance or abstemiousness plays an important rôle. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy] Reference
His forced abstemiousness was rendered the more intolerable by the fact that. From Wordnik.com. [Miss Mapp] Reference
His face showed the effects of his enforced abstemiousness in a marked degree. From Wordnik.com. [The Mucker] Reference
Lord Stowell, quickly putting away the imputation of such abstemiousness, "More than that.". From Wordnik.com. [A Book About Lawyers] Reference
It is asserted that the climate itself induces temperance in drink and abstemiousness in diet. From Wordnik.com. [Our Italy] Reference
On this pittance he not only supported himself, but contrived, by great abstemiousness, to save. From Wordnik.com. [Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 4 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History] Reference
We mean rather a more stringent abstemiousness, which may be called separation from the world, or asceticism. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy] Reference
But the young nobleman's abstemiousness wholly defeated and baffled him, as he rarely took more than a single glass. From Wordnik.com. [Julian Home] Reference
Perhaps the abstemiousness of the last three days had told upon him, and drove him for refuge to his usual comforter. From Wordnik.com. [The Nebuly Coat] Reference
The contrast between his evident indulgence and the previous abstemiousness of her late guest struck her unpleasantly. From Wordnik.com. [Sally Dows] Reference
My confounded abstemiousness is therefore to blame, that I can no longer enjoy a place at the best table in all Egypt. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference
Abercrombie had kept himself free from wine, and people who knew nothing of his history wondered at his abstemiousness. From Wordnik.com. [Danger] Reference
In the meantime, after this one relapse at Benicia, I went on with my abstemiousness, primarily because I didn't want to drink. From Wordnik.com. [John Barleycorn] Reference
Careless to abstemiousness in her daily habits, it was part of her pride to set a feast before such of her guests as cared for it. From Wordnik.com. [North and South] Reference
Eyeing the table in a spirit of complete abstemiousness (he wouldn't let me help him to any eatables) he went into details of supply. From Wordnik.com. ['Twixt Land and Sea] Reference
This position is, however, not altogether tenable, if by that we mean abstemiousness; they are extremely temperate, but not abstemious. From Wordnik.com. [History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance] Reference
But what about those of us who reject Kessler's ethic of rigidly ordered abstemiousness, which replaces hypereating with hypervigilance?. From Wordnik.com. [Reason Magazine] Reference
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