abstainer

abstain | American Dictionary

abstain
verb[ I ]
us/æbˈsteɪn, əb-/
to not do something you could do, esp. something that is unhealthy or gives you pleasure:
Some families abstain from eating fried food.
If you abstain from voting, you do not vote although you are permitted to vote.

Examples of abstain

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The sole television channel, on the air since 1954, completely abstained from political programmes and editorials.
Before each testing session, subjects were fasted for at least 4 h and abstained from caffeine.
They had different mentalities and abstained as much as possible from social responsibilities.
By contrast, when currently abstaining users were also included the correlations with days since last use fell well short of significance.
All subjects abstained from caffeine, alcohol and nicotine for at least 8 h before each session.
Only 34 per cent said that they would vote for it, while 44 per cent would vote against (the rest didn't know or abstained).
The second group includes those who were members of the institution at the time of both divisions, but who abstained on one or other ballot.
Agalev abstained because it felt the resolutions hinted at a confederal rather than a federal model.
I calculated the probability of casting a vote for the incumbent party, as opposed to abstaining or voting for his opponent.
To prevent close pregnancies completely though not always intentionally, man in pre-industrial societies abstained from intercourse for varying periods.
Many of those who abstained preferred to take the risk of being 'punished' for not voting rather than pay the consequences of a ' bad ' choice.
As a consequence, lower income groups abstained from buying the tobacco leaf.
The current study was not able to differentiate adolescents within the abstinence group based on their reasoning for abstaining from substance use.
Patients were either unmedicated or had abstained from a psychostimulant medication regime for at least 24 h prior to neurocognitive assessment.
More than once he refers to having seen unknown plants or drugs, but often he abstains from describing them.
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