abstainer

abstainer

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1. raittiusmies

Synonyymisanakirja: abstainer

abstainer

1. henkilö, ihminen, henki, uskonnollinen henkilö, raittiushenkilö, kohtuutta noudattava henkilö, pidättyvä, raitis ihminen, kieltäymyksen harjoittaja, askeetti, puritaani, pylväspyhimys, raivoraitis ihminen, absolutisti, raitis.

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Riimisanakirja: abstainer

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1. designer, manner, tanner, sotatanner, taistelutanner, kinner...

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Käännökset: abstainer

abstainer suomeksi

raittiushenkilö, kieltäymyksen harjoittaja

abstainer englanniksi

• agent noun|Agent noun of abstain; one who abstains; especially, one who abstains from something, such as the use of alcohol or drugs, or one who abstains for religious reasons; one who practices self-denial. (defdate)(R:SOED5)

• 1920, (w), Dream Psychology: Psychoanalysis for Beginners, translated by w:David Eder|M. D. Eder, New York: The James A. McCann Company, Chapter V, http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15489/15489-h/15489-h.htm

To one of my very nervous patients, who was an abstainer, whose fancy was fixed on his mother, and who repeatedly dreamed of climbing stairs accompanied by his mother, I once remarked that moderate masturbation would be less harmful to him than enforced abstinence.

• (quote-text)|title=(w)|chapter=4|url=http://www.gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100021h.html|passage=He was a total abstainer and a nonsmoker, had no recreations except a daily hour in the gymnasium, and had taken a vow of celibacy, believing marriage and the care of a family to be incompatible with a twenty-four-hour-a-day devotion to duty.

• 1990, (w), "Family Sins" in The Collected Stories, New York: Viking, 1992, p. 1105,

'Never himself touches a drop of the stuff, you understand. Having been an abstainer since the age of seven or something. A clerky figure even as a child.'

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