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Abstemiousness

noun
1.
Restricted to bare necessities.
2.
Moderation in eating and drinking.





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"Abstemiousness" Quotes from Famous Books



... winter dances. And to her joy, she met with a nice young man, who was earnestly in pursuit of a new religion, which involved much fasting and occasional vegetarian meals. He taught her to eat nuts, and eschew meats, talking meanwhile of the psychic powers which such abstemiousness would develop in her. Of course Lady Garvington did not overdo this asceticism, but she was thankful to meet a man who had not read Beeton's Cookery Book. ...
— Red Money • Fergus Hume
... may choose whether he will have abstemiousness and knowledge, or claret and ignorance,' iii. 335; 'He did not know enough of Greek to be sensible of his ignorance of the language,' iv. 33, n. 3; 'His ignorance is so great I am afraid to show him the bottom of it,' iv. 33, n. 3 'Ignorance, ...
— Life of Johnson, Volume 6 (of 6) • James Boswell


Words linked to "Abstemiousness" :   scantness, exiguity, scantiness, temperance, abstemious, poorness, meagreness, meagerness, moderation, leanness


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