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• n  abstaining from alcohol
• v  practice teetotalism and abstain from the consumption of alcoholic beverages

• To the sprawling (five major agencies plus a score of hospitals, colleges, research institutes) Department of Health, Education and Welfare, teetotaling Methodist Arthur Flemming .
• He would be fanatic in behavior and belief: stern, moralistic, teetotaling.
• Prize cocktail concocter: Tom Buttery, teetotaling barkeep at London's smart Berkeley.

• teetotalism
• teetotal

News & Articles

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• Turkish attempt to limit alcohol helps fuel unrest
  A move to scale back the sale and consumption of alcohol in a country of mostly teetotaling Muslims but with a tradition of tolerating drinking has added fuel to discontent anong some over a government with a reputation for being heavy-handed.
  June 10, 2013 - Seattle Times

Quotes

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• Andrew Pyper in Globe and Mail
  I bristle at prejudice,Pyper said, referring to the exile of crime writers into a genre ghetto. "It's a problem in Canada - a constipation about what we call literature, a teetotaling Presbyterian reflex, guard the gates against the...