different between abstained vs abstainer

English

Verb

abstained

1. simple past tense and past participle of abstain

Anagrams

• bastinade

English

Etymology

From Middle English absteiner, from absteinen (“to abstain”). More at abstain.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /æb?ste?.n?/
• Rhymes: -e?n?(r)

Noun

abstainer (plural abstainers)

1. 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. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]
   • 1920, Sigmund Freud, Dream Psychology: Psychoanalysis for Beginners, translated by M. D. Eder, New York: The James A. McCann Company, Chapter V, [1]

     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.

   • 1990, William Trevor, "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.'

Synonyms

• Nazarite
• teetotaler

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Anagrams

• rabatines