Crossword-Solution: ABSTINENT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Abstinent | a. | Refraining from indulgence, especially from the indulgence of appetite; abstemious; continent; temperate. |
| Abstinent | n. | One who abstains. |
| Abstinent | n. | One of a sect who appeared in France and Spain in the 3d century. |
We have 13 clues for the answer “ABSTINENT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Showing self-restraint | 1 answer |
| not indulging an appetite especially for food or drink | 1 answer |
| Teetotaling | 2 answers |
| On the wagon | 5 answers |
| continent | 22 answers |
| Abstemious | 25 answers |
| ascetic | 45 answers |
| Temperate | 51 answers |
| Virgin | 51 answers |
| Austere | 64 answers |
| forbearing | 68 answers |
| Sober | 76 answers |
| Dry | 83 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEAER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ABSTINENT (5)
Wentworth looked at her, painfully at a loss; and in so far as the signs of a pure and abstinent life were visible in his face they were then probably peculiarly manifest.
Sparing in diet; refraining from a free use of food and strong drinks; temperate; abstinent; sparing in the indulgence of the appetite or passions.
Similarly there is a difference between knowing the nature of abstinence, and _being_ abstinent or having one’s soul detached from the world.—Thus I had learned what words could teach of Sufism, but what was left could be learned neither by study nor through the ears, but solely by giving one’s self up to ecstasy and leading a pious life.
But my poverty kept me abstinent and my youthful romanticism kept me chaste until my married life was well under way.
Hermits and anchorites more strictly abstinent and more spiritual can nowhere be found; for this nation is earnest in all its pursuits, and neither worse men than the bad, nor better than the good, can be met with.
Quotes with ABSTINENT (1)
If God wanted teenagers to be abstinent, puberty would begin at twenty.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1998–2007).