Abstainer
a person who from something regarded as improper or unhealthy, especially the drinking of alcoholic beverages.
a person who from anything.
Historical Examples
The dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake.
A Chesterton Calendar G. K. Chesterton
You have always, then, been an abstainer since you came to the colony?
Frank Oldfield T.P. Wilson
The abstainer, like the Nazirite, is his own witness, his own judge.
The Expositor’s Bible:The Book of Numbers Robert A. Watson
The bishop asked me the other day whether I was an abstainer.
The Bishop’s Apron W. Somerset Maugham
Speaking as an abstainer from fermented liquors, I must really protest against these allusions to barmaids.
The Evil Genius Wilkie Collins
“All right,” said the major, regarding an abstainer with disfavour.
Command William McFee
He was no abstainer and saw nothing wrong in entering a public-house, although it never occurred to him to do so.
Married August Strindberg
The master then, being an abstainer, should also give some care to his diet.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 832, December 12, 1891 Various
And is not total abstinence the only safe side for the abstainer himself?
The Hero of the Humber Henry Woodcock
The brandy I did not touch, for I have been an abstainer from my birth.
The Island of Doctor Moreau H. G. Wells
n.
mid-15c., “one who practices self-denial,” agent noun from abstain.
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