ABSTAINER, n. A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.

Said a man to a crapulent youth: "I thought You a total abstainer, my son." "So I am, so I am," said the scrapgrace caught -- "But not, sir, a bigoted one." G.J.

Source: THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993)
 

Abstainer \Ab*stain"er\, n. One who abstains; esp., one who abstains from the use of intoxicating liquors. [1913 Webster]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
 

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abstainer

Source: WordNet (r) 2.0
 

Abstainer \Ab*stain"er\, n. One who abstains; esp., one who abstains from the use of intoxicating liquors.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)