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Answer for the clue "Avoiding alcohol, having gone without can ", 9 letters:
abstinent

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The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Abstinent \Ab"sti*nent\, a. [F. abstinent, L. abstinens, p. pr. of abstinere. See Abstain .] Refraining from indulgence, especially from the indulgence of appetite; abstemious; continent; temperate. --Beau. & Fl.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 a. refraining from indulgence, especially from the indulgence of appetite; abstemious; continent; temperate. (First attested around 1350 to 1470.) (R:SOED5: page=10) Etymology 2 n. 1 One who abstains; a faster. (First attested around 1350 to ...

Usage examples of abstinent.

We had discovered each other, Brody and I, making love anywhere and everywhere as though we had been abstinent for years.

They took away his Florsheims after 24 abstinent hours had passed and he started to perhaps D.