Crossword-Solution: ABSTEMIOUSNESS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Abstemiousness | n. | The quality of being abstemious, temperate, or sparing in the use of food and strong drinks. It expresses a greater degree of abstinence than temperance. |
We have 7 clues for the answer “ABSTEMIOUSNESS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Modesty. | 28 answers |
| Sacrifice | 29 answers |
| sobriety | 46 answers |
| Temperance | 58 answers |
| Silence | 93 answers |
| Reserve | 95 answers |
| CONTROL ___ | 113 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with ABSTEMIOUSNESS (5)
And now at last he has cursed the Suridgees in all proper figures of speech, and is ready for a ride of a thousand miles; but before he comforts his soul in the marble baths of Stamboul he will be another and a lesser man; his sense of responsibility, his too strict abstemiousness, and his restless energy, disdainful of sleep, will have worn him down to a fraction of the sleek Moostapha that now leads out our party from the gates of Belgrade.
Lord Lowborough was quite as remarkable for his abstemiousness for some time before you married him, as he is now, I have heard.” “Oh, about the _wine_ you mean—yes, he’s safe enough for that.
Equally injurious are fasting and excessive abstemiousness, anxiety of mind, anger, and immoderate drinking.
Fits of deep melancholy alternated with bursts of Spanish boastfulness, utterly astonishing to the modest and sober-minded Englishman, who would often have fancied him inspired by usquebaugh, had he not had ocular proof of his extreme abstemiousness.
This increasing abstemiousness, a sign of decrepitude, slackens and at last stops the work of the spinnerets.
Quotes with ABSTEMIOUSNESS (1)
In [David] Douglas's success in life ... his great activity, undaunted courage, singular abstemiousness, and energetic zeal, at once pointed him out as an individual eminently calculated to do himself credit as a scientific traveler.