'abstinent' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is used to describe someone who abstains from something, such as drinking alcohol, eating certain foods, or engaging in some type of behavior. For example, "He has made a commitment to lead an abstinent lifestyle."
The Bishop gives his dictionary's 3 definitions of the word "abstemious": 1. sparing in use of food & drink; 2. abstinent; 3. marked by abstinence.
Young men (and some women) also tend to go abroad as missionaries, usually after rigorous study of a foreign language (Mr Romney learned French, Mr Huntsman Mandarin Chinese in Taiwan).Many missionaries become paragons of self-discipline, with their trademark white shirts and ties and a teetotalling, non-smoking, caffeine-free and abstinent Mormon work ethic.
After ten years, 60% had become completely abstinent and 40% remained occasional users.
Dean Busby and his colleagues at Brigham Young University, in Utah, however, have gathered some data which support delay (conveniently for the university, which is owned by the famously abstinent Mormons).Fabian tacticsIn this section The waiting game Space hopping Smoked out Any old iron?
Celibacy, the state of being unmarried and, therefore, sexually abstinent, usually in association with the role of a religious official or devotee.
By creating opportunities for sexual companionship among the other members of the marriage, polygyny also supports the once common expectation that women will remain sexually abstinent for two or more years beginning in the last months of pregnancy (or upon parturition).
These shifts in immunity were not observed in sexually abstinent women, the study found.
While Brigitte led an abstinent shell of a life, Carleen had had three children with three different men.
Twelve subjects, all of whom had tried to quit multiple times, using various methods, were verified as abstinent six months after treatment, a success rate of eighty per cent.
(Currently, the leading cessation treatment is nicotine-replacement therapy; a recent review article in the BMJ — formerly the British Medical Journal — reported that the treatment helped smokers remain abstinent for six months in less than seven per cent of cases).
As Gately fidgets his way through daily A.M. meditation he always tries to remind himself daily that this is all an Ennet House residency is supposed to do: buy these poor yutzes some time, some thin pie slice of abstinent time, till they can start to get a whiff of what's true and deep, almost magic, under the shallow surface of what they're trying to do.
