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Meaning of abstinently in English:

abstinently

adverb

See abstinent

‘Tho' I am as temperate as a man need be, I no longer live so abstinently as I had done before.’
  • ‘In prison the "classical" target group for methadone treatments (therapy drop-outs, offenders who are reluctant to live abstinently, who are physically and socially incriminated) is great.’