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abstinent (adj.)
late 14c., from Old French
abstinent
(earlier
astenant
) "moderate, abstemious, modest," from Latin
abstinentem
(nominative
abstinens
) "temperate, moderate," present participle of
abstinere
"to refrain from" (see
abstain
).