Crossword-Solution: ABSTAINER
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Abstainer | n. | One who abstains; esp., one who abstains from the use of intoxicating liquors. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| ABSTAINER | anagram | BRAINTEAS |
We have 7 clues for the answer “ABSTAINER”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Forbearer. | 1 answer |
| One who has taken the pledge. | 1 answer |
| Teetotaling type | 1 answer |
| a person who refrains from drinking intoxicating beverages | 1 answer |
| someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline | 1 answer |
| Teetotaler. | 3 answers |
| Teetotaller | 3 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
AERA
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with ABSTAINER (5)
His political and social speeches were cataracts of anecdotes and “loud laughter”; his bodily health was of a bursting sort; his ethics were all optimism; and he dealt with the Drink problem (his favourite topic) with that immortal or even monotonous gaiety which is so often a mark of the prosperous total abstainer.
The bird turned out to be an abstainer from the egg habit, and I’m told that the letters which passed between the two women were a revelation as to how much invective could be got on to a sheet of notepaper.” “How ridiculous!” said Mrs.
Warren weighed 150 pounds, was a total abstainer, and was the father of two children, both of whom could readily dislocate their hips.
Thus he lives in the fancy of the hour; sometimes he takes to drink, and then he turns abstainer; he practises in the gymnasium or he does nothing at all; then again he would be a philosopher or a politician; or again, he would be a warrior or a man of business; he is ‘Every thing by starts and nothing long.’ There remains still the finest and fairest of all men and all States—tyranny and the tyrant.
But at the sad time of which I am trying to write, I was almost an abstainer, from the fear, the temptation--of seeking oblivion in strong waters.
Quotes with ABSTAINER (3)
Abstainer: a weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
In elections in Iceland, I have always been an abstainer. It seems like politics is such a small bundle of self-important people, who don't have much to do with things I'm interested in.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1947–1966).