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Abstinence

Abstinence Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Abstinence? [n] act or practice of refraining from indulging an appetite [n] the trait of abstaining (especially from alcohol) Synonyms \| Synonyms for Abstinence: abstention Related Terms \| Find terms related to Abstinence: abnegation \| abstainment \| abstemiousness \| abstention \| abstinence from food \| Albigensianism \| anchoritic monasticism \| anchoritism \| asceticism \| austerity \| avoidance \| banyan day \| calm \| calmness \| Catharism \| celibacy \| chastity \| conservatism \| constraint \| continence \| continency \| control \| cool \| desuetude \| dispassion \| disuse \| Encratism \| eremitism \| eschewal \| evenness \| fast \| fasting \| fish day \| flagellation \| Franciscanism \| Friday \| fruitarianism \| gentleness \| golden mean \| gymnosophy \| happy medium \| impartiality \| intactness \| judiciousness \| juste-milieu \| lenity \| Lenten fare \| maceration \| maidenhead \| maidenhood \| meden agan \| mendicantism \| middle way \| mildness \| moderateness \| moderation \| moderationism \| monachism \| monasticism \| mortification \| nephalism \| neutrality \| nonemployment \| nonprevalence \| nonuse \| nonviolence \| nothing in excess \| obsolescence \| obsoleteness \| obsoletion \| obsoletism \| pacifism \| pensioning off \| plain living \| Platonic love \| prudence \| punishment of Tantalus \| puritanism \| Pythagoreanism \| Pythagorism \| Rechabitism \| refraining \| refrainment \| renunciation \| repose \| restraint \| restriction of intake \| retirement \| rigor \| Sabbatarianism \| self-abnegation \| self-control \| self-denial \| self-mortification \| self-restraint \| serenity \| sexual abstinence \| Shakerism \| simple diet \| sobriety \| spare diet \| Spartan fare \| stability \| starvation \| steadiness \| Stoicism \| superannuation \| teetotalism \| temperance \| temperateness \| the pledge \| total abstinence \| tranquillity \| Trappism \| unexcessiveness \| unextravagance \| unextremeness \| unprevalence \| vegetarianism \| via media \| virginity \| voluntary poverty \| Waldensianism \| Yoga See Also \| celibacy \| chastity \| fast \| fasting \| inhibition \| self-control \| self-denial \| self-denial \| self-discipline \| self-discipline \| sexual abstention \| sobriety \| suppression \| teetotaling \| teetotalism \| temperance Abstinence In Webster's Dictionary \Ab"sti*nence\, n. [F. abstinence, L. abstinentia, fr. abstinere. See {Abstain}.] 1. The act or practice of abstaining; voluntary forbearance of any action, especially the refraining from an indulgence of appetite, or from customary gratifications of animal or sensual propensities. Specifically, the practice of abstaining from intoxicating beverages, -- called also {total abstinence}. The abstinence from a present pleasure that offers itself is a pain, nay, oftentimes, a very great one. --Locke. 2. The practice of self-denial by depriving one's self of certain kinds of food or drink, especially of meat. Penance, fasts, and abstinence, To punish bodies for the soul's offense. --Dryden.

Abstinence Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Abstinence?

[n] act or practice of refraining from indulging an appetite
[n] the trait of abstaining (especially from alcohol)

Synonyms | Synonyms for Abstinence: abstention

Abstinence In Webster's Dictionary

\Ab"sti*nence\, n. [F. abstinence, L. abstinentia,
fr. abstinere. See {Abstain}.]
1. The act or practice of abstaining; voluntary forbearance
   of any action, especially the refraining from an
   indulgence of appetite, or from customary gratifications
   of animal or sensual propensities. Specifically, the
   practice of abstaining from intoxicating beverages, --
   called also {total abstinence}.

         The abstinence from a present pleasure that offers
         itself is a pain, nay, oftentimes, a very great one.
                                               --Locke.

2. The practice of self-denial by depriving one's self of
   certain kinds of food or drink, especially of meat.

         Penance, fasts, and abstinence, To punish bodies for
         the soul's offense.                   --Dryden.

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