Abstainer meaning

Noun: abstainer

Pronunciation:(ub’stey-nu(r))

Abstainer meaning:

• Someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline

Synonyms: ascetic

• A person who refrains from drinking intoxicating beverages

Synonyms: abstinent, nondrinker
Derived forms: abstainers
Quotations:

1. Michael – Goddard, however, in common with many other observers, notes that miscarriages and deaths in infancy are far higher among inebriates than among abstainers.
2. William Arch – The general result will be the gradual development of a generation of total abstainers from the use of tobacco.
3. Silas Kitto – It is true he was not a pledged abstainer.
4. Anonymous – They were denied the chance, for Mr. Clutter, an abstainer aggressively opposed to drink and drunkards, seized a gun and marched them off his property.
5. Alfred George – Abraham Lincoln, himself a total abstainer, once got into great trouble for saying so.

Sample sentences:

1. An abstainer is a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
2. I’ve been a total abstainer ever since I was five!
3. They are rigid “abstainers,” and arak is not to be procured in the Bakhtiari country.
4. There was one sober man, a complete abstainer and a favorite.
5. Are you a protectionist or a total abstainer?
6. About twenty years ago the Wesleyan missionaries tried to discourage the practice, by instituting a blue ribbon for total abstainers from kava and tobacco.
7. They absolve the sinner who can plead, “I was in love,” more easily than the self-righteous abstainer.
8. Mervyn, though by no means a total abstainer was a temperate man so it was not that.
9. He needed some himself, and he knew the tramp was not an abstainer.
10. He was almost a total abstainer, rarely taking liquor in any form.
11. The drivers were almost invariably large, hearty, healthy Yankees, of good sense and regular habits, though they were seldom total abstainers.
12. And this is honestly the principle on which many become total abstainers, women as well as men.
13. Temperance in betting would be easier to effect were it not for the intemperate doctrine of total abstainers.
14. Speaking for myself and of myself, although a very moderate and small drinker, I am not an abstainer.
15. Such total abstainers leave degenerate offspring in which degeneracy assumes the type of excess in alcohol as well as even lower phases.
16. He was fine looking, most intelligent from his wide reading, a total abstainer from liquors and tobacco, honored at home and abroad, and very rich.
17. For the last five or six years I have practically been an abstainer, and my health has greatly improved in consequence.
18. Total abstainers from every other evil practice are not immune.
19. I have said that, though a heavy drinker by nature, Alten is a strict abstainer at sea.
20. Some of the men were total abstainers with the courage of their convictions; they steadfastly refused to touch it.
21. Its members have been keen evangelists, trusting largely to “revivals” for their success, staunch Radicals in politics and total abstainers to a man.
22. Great numbers are total abstainers from strong drink.
23. We know that Pythagoras himself was not a total abstainer from flesh.
24. So all she could ask was that every one should become a total abstainer.
25. He is a total abstainer, a non-smoker, and a frequenter of houses of fair reception.
26. For the greater part of his literary life he seems to have been almost a total abstainer, indulging only in the very strongest of tea.
27. She was an abstainer from choice rather than principle; but she was deeply imbued with the uncompromising religion of her Ulster forbears.
28. This is seen in Russia by comparing the abstainers with the drinkers, the former being much more fecund.
29. I surely am as earnest a prohibitionist and total abstainer as any woman or man in South Dakota or anywhere else.
30. At this present moment, I stand before you a total abstainer of six weeks’ duration.