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 Translation for 'abstemious' from English to Esperanto
ADJ   abstemious | more abstemious | most abstemious
SYNO abstemious | light
abstina {adj}abstemious
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Translation for 'abstemious' from English to Esperanto

abstemious
abstina {adj}
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Usage Examples English
  • As the entertainment media have become more sex-saturated, American teenagers have become more sexually abstemious" by "waiting longer to have sex ...
  • Norman Bryson describes Sánchez Cotán’s spare representations as abstemious images and links his work to his later monastic life.
  • At puberty, a girl began to live a very quiet and abstemious life for five months, remaining always in or near the house, abstaining from meat, and drinking little water.
  • The Empire style "turned to the florid opulence of Imperial Rome. The abstemious severity of Doric was replaced by Corinthian richness and splendour".
  • After the Haj, Shefta became more religious and his writing became spiritual and abstemious in tone.

  • The college was also abstemious, compared with the others, and the "Oriel teapot" became proverbial.
  • Clerk was a strict vegetarian, but his abstemious diet did not subdue his warlike spirit.
  • The first reference to the Toddington Brass Band was in an 1856 issue of The Dunstable Chronicle but, in 1910, a flurry of other bands including the abstemious 'Temperance Band' and its possibly more entertaining competition 'The Beer and Baccy Band' gave way to one which was established and conducted by James Hyde.
  • He appears to have been a figure of note, well travelled, and abstemious; Athenaeus cites Demetrius of Scepsis to attest that Diocles "drank cold water to the day of his death".
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