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Abstinent

Abstinent meaning

Refraining from indulgence, especially from the indulgence of appetite.

Example sentences (11)

Since then, the organisation has been delivering a programme of rehabilitation and providing abstinent accommodation from Penrhyn House in Bangor.

As he’s been abstinent for six months I imagine his liver function is close to being fully recovered.

Mr Bahia said Malik's arrest and remand into custody was a "blessing in disguise" and he has been abstinent from drugs and alcohol.

Ms Devi told the judge the defendant - who appeared via CVP video link from HMP Bullingdon - had been abstinent from alcohol for the past four to five months.

She also noted he had been abstinent from drugs for 17 years but relapsed not long before the offending after several family members died in quick succession.

The new guidelines from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reduce the amount of time — from 12 months to three months — that men who have sex with men have to be same-sex abstinent before giving blood.

Though he was considerably wilder in his youth, Regis eventually chooses to be abstinent from blood-drinking.

The programs stigmatize sexually-active adolescents by claiming that people who aren’t abstinent are less worthy than those who are, Coulombe said.

Sexting shouldn’t be outlawed by more traditional types, especially as it can still fit within the abstinent lifestyle.

That’s when she read a Catholic book stating that if a couple remained abstinent post-conception, the child would become a priest.

The feeling of power has so far mounted highest in abstinent priests and hermits" (quoted by Walter Kaufman in his classic, Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist, p. 222).