abstainer

名词 n.
/æbˈsteɪ.nɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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.
    — 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.

词形变化

abstainers plural

词源

From Middle English absteyner, equivalent to abstain + -er.
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