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Answer for the clue "A diet excluding all meat and fish ", 13 letters:
vegetarianism

Word definitions for vegetarianism in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a diet excluding all meat and fish

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vegetarianism \Veg`e*ta"ri*an*ism\, n. The theory or practice of living upon vegetables and fruits.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1848, from vegetarian + -ism .

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Vegetarianism is the practice of abstaining from the consumption of meat ( red meat , poultry , seafood , and the flesh of any other animal ). Vegetarians are typically healthier, live longer (if the avoidance of sugar and refined sugars is included), and ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ In fact, vegetarianism is growing by leaps and bounds, particularly among the health-conscious. ▪ It made no pretence of catering to faddish tastes like vegetarianism or high fibre diets. ▪ Many a student has found the route ...

Usage examples of vegetarianism.

Shaw, it is said, tired of socialism, weary of wearing Jaegers, and broken down by teetotalism and vegetarianism, sought, some years ago, an escape from them.

I contemplated food phobias, the more I became convinced that people who habitually avoid certifiably delicious foods are at least as troubled as people who avoid sex, or take no pleasure from it, except that the latter will probably seek psychiatric help, while food phobics rationalize their problem in the name of genetic inheritance, allergy, vegetarianism, matters of taste, nutrition, food safety, obesity, or a sensitive nature.

But the mere fact that the Misses Tripp have adopted with enthusiasm Christian Science, vegetarianism, theosophy and spiritualism does not really constitute a damning indictment of those subjects!

From watching him refuse the meat, Azzie suspected him of vegetarianism, one of the deviant marks by which a Catharist heretic could be detected.

Her mother refused to kowtow to the vegetarianism Ruth had taken up after my death.

During one particularly fevered patch of vegetarianism in the seventies, I made the mistake of saying I'd been to Benihana's steak house.

When several weeks went by and the atlas had disappeared from her table, and she had given up vegetarianism for Swedish movements, we felt that we were to have a quiet summer after all, and Aggie wrote to a hotel in Asbury Park about rooms for July and August.

Individual Mutualism is neither capitalism, communism, socialism, vegetarianism, or even the dreaded monetarism that destroyed many a technological society.