A person who refrains from drinking intoxicating beverages.
Someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline.
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Examples for "abstinent "
1 We tested abstinent alcoholics and control subjects in a double-blind two-session design.
2 Are there more benefits to remaining sexually abstinent than one would think?
3 Hemodynamic, physiological, and behavioral parameters were compared between sated and abstinent scans.
4 Of the other drugs examined only phenoxybenzamine reduced diarrhea in morphine - abstinent rats.
5 The delicate, the abstinent , the reticent graces were his in the heroic degree.
1 Larry's been a nondrinker his whole life.
2 Or was Galimore also a nondrinker .
3 There should be an article in The Irish Times every week about what it's like to be a nondrinker in this country.
4 Even so, some folks -the odd nondrinker , for instance -still found it hard to get up in front of people and croon.
5 Results: Nondrinkers were older and had more comorbidities than light-to-moderate and heavy drinkers.
One who abstains; especially, one who abstains from the use of alcoholic drinks.
1 Again we had the bottle between us, but Reverdy was an abstainer .
2 My experience, since I became a total abstainer , has been the opposite.
3 Still, the Judge, though he hated noisy revellers, was no total abstainer .
4 The sight of the ribbon induces the curious to offer the abstainer drink.
5 The Sikh drinks what he will; the Pathan is an abstainer .
6 Total abstinence resembles this preventive; no total abstainer is in danger of alcoholism.
7 Being an abstainer , I asked leave to retire with the ladies.
8 At a time when drinking was almost universal, he was a total abstainer .
9 He asked the warden-butthe warden was a total abstainer .
10 It is no credit to me for being an abstainer .
11 I had hoped to hear that you were an abstainer -
12 Mr Todhunter, as has been remarked, is a quiet thrifty gentleman, essentially an abstainer .
13 His father, though not a total abstainer , had lived and died a temperate man.
14 He passed quite fifteen years in Washington, a total abstainer from the use of intoxicants.
15 And William died in the belief that he also became a "total abstainer . "
16 The New York Sun says: Every successful man in Wall Street is a total abstainer .
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