Canadian English Meaning of abstinent

teetotaler

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Definitions and Meaning of abstinent in English

Wordnet

abstinent (n)

a person who refrains from drinking intoxicating beverages

Wordnet

abstinent (s)

self-restraining; not indulging an appetite especially for food or drink

Webster

abstinent (a.)

Refraining from indulgence, especially from the indulgence of appetite; abstemious; continent; temperate.

Webster

abstinent (n.)

One who abstains.

One of a sect who appeared in France and Spain in the 3d century.

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teetotaler

a person who refrains from drinking intoxicating beverages, self-restraining; not indulging an appetite especially for food or drinkRefraining from indulgence,

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gluttonous,Greedy,Hedonistic,rapacious,self-indulgent,voracious,sybaritic,Cyrenaic,Self-indulgent,voluptuary

abstinency => abstinence, abstinence => abstinence, abstersiveness => abstersiveness, abstersive => abstersive, abstersion => wiping,