Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The habit or practice of abstaining or refraining, especially from food.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Abstinence.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Besides all this, to provide diligently that there be public prayers and supplications made in time of necessity, together with fastings, that is, a holy abstinency, and most carefully to look to those things which belong to the tranquillity, peace, and safety of the Church.
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President Obama's budget approves $114 million for a new "teenage pregnancy prevention" initiative that will fund only programs that have evidence of success -- which seems like a reasonable requirement, especially critics of abstinency only programs.
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President Obama's budget approves $114 million for a new "teenage pregnancy prevention" initiative that will fund only programs that have evidence of success -- which seems like a reasonable requirement, especially critics of abstinency only programs.
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