His life was pure and simple: vegetarianism, teetotalism, abstention from religious rites of any kind.
In Guatemala, some 30% are Protestant.Traditional varieties of Pentecostalism emphasise a strict moral code of personal behaviour, including teetotalism and marital fidelity.
Since women tend to be more religious than men, the evangelicals' stress on teetotalism and condemnation of domestic violence is an attraction, too.Visible though Protestants have become in Latin America, the region remains strongly Catholic: it is home to more than 425m Catholics, or 40% of the world's total.
And at this point all the wine bars and nightclubs will be closed due to wide-spread rampant teetotalism, and spending only £93 each per month per person on beauty will seem an enormous bargain.
How about the time he described teetotalism as "one of the cruellest and most deceitful things you can do to your body"?
Further targets for Amis's asperity included his vegetarianism and his teetotalism.
He and Goethe and Victor Hugo show Americans what they have few native examples to learn from: writing can be a healthy, life-giving activity, sustainable — in Shaw's case with the help of teetotalism, vegetarianism, and bicycling — through a generous mortal span.
The word teetotalism has appeared in one New York Times article in the past year, on July 24 in "A Wedding?
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Nucky is supposed to be a persuasive liar who can preach teetotalism to the Women's Temperance League with a straight face.
At the reception, we all snacked on Ritz crackers washed down with apple juice, in deference to the bride's teetotalism.
