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Moderation in eating and drinking
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abstemiousness
Word definitions for abstemiousness in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Abstemiousness \Ab*ste"mi*ous*ness\, n. The quality of being abstemious, temperate, or sparing in the use of food and strong drinks. It expresses a greater degree of abstinence than temperance.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The quality of being abstemious, temperate, or sparing, particularly in the use of food and strong drinks. (First attested in the early 17 th century.) (R:SOED5: page=9)
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. restricted to bare necessities moderation in eating and drinking
Usage examples of abstemiousness.
Concha, however, with that lean strength that comes from a life of abstemiousness and low-living, crept along in the shadow of the houses and reached his destination unhurt.
And yet if any creature had been guileless enough to intimate that his absorbing nine gallons of "straight" whiskey during our voyage was any fraction short of rigid or inflexible abstemiousness, in that self-same moment the old man would have spun him to the uttermost parts of the earth in the whirlwind of his wrath.