abstemiousness
IPA: æbstˈɛmiʌsnʌs
noun
- The quality of being abstemious, temperate, or sparing, particularly in the use of food and strong drinks.
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Examples of "abstemiousness" in Sentences
- "But this here New York was inaugurated on the idea of abstemiousness in regard to the parts of speech.
- Yet Italy's society is hardly less dynamic than Spain's, so other factors must explain its comparative abstemiousness.
- In the meantime, after this one relapse at Benicia, I went on with my abstemiousness, primarily because I didn't want to drink.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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."
- 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.