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What does abstemiously mean?

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Adverb
  1. Marked by abstinence or restraint, especially in relation to food or drink. [First attested in the early 18th century.]
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But he's so worried about his fitness levels that he has abstemiously kept off alcohol and fast food in the run up to the event.
He ate on, rapidly but abstemiously, and finished before Mr. Bylash, who had had twenty minutes' start of him.
In the healthful Asian way, and perhaps for economic reasons, meats are used abstemiously, as flavoring, while vegetables, beans and nuts, yogurt, butter and cream and aromatic Indian spices ingeniously carry the dishes.
They subsist abstemiously upon wild herbs and fruits and roots and leaves of diverse kinds.
You see him sip abstemiously, after using the small reading glasses he keeps in his pocket to read the label.
He lived abstemiously for his entire life, eschewing pleasure for purity.

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