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Abstinent   /ˈæbstənənt/   Listen
Abstinent

noun
1.
A person who refrains from drinking intoxicating beverages.  Synonyms: abstainer, nondrinker.






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"Abstinent" Quotes from Famous Books



... Nan's sake, Tom could do no less. It was the final plunge. The boy was come of abstinent stock, which was possibly the reason why the smell of the raw corn liquor with which the cabin reeked gripped him so fiercely. Be that as it may, he could make but a feeble resistance when the tipsy mountaineer pressed him to drink; and the slight barrier went down ...
— The Quickening • Francis Lynde

... Jesuit. anno. 1549. a Xaverto et socus. Idemque Riccius expedid. ad Sinas l. 1. per totum Jejunatores apud eos toto die carnibus abstinent et piscibus ob religionem, nocte et die ...
— The Anatomy of Melancholy • Democritus Junior



Words linked to "Abstinent" :   person, drinker, someone, teetotalist, soul, abstainer, abstain, abstemious, somebody, nondrinker, abstinence, teetotaler, mortal, teetotaller, individual



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