What is the meaning of ABSTINENCE. Phrases containing ABSTINENCE
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1. not taking part in sexual acts. 2. not masturbating or denial of all sexual pleasure. Synonyms: born again virgin; secondary virginity.
Abstinence, have had sex in the past waiting for a committed long term relationship, or for marriage.
To do the sex act after a long abstinence.
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Characterized by abstinence; self-restraining.
n.
Severity of life; austerity; voluntary submission to pain, abstinence, or mortification.
v. i.
Abstinence from food; omission to take nourishment.
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Designating, or pertaining to, a temperance society and movement started in Baltimore in 1840 on the principle of total abstinence.
n.
The practice of self-denial by depriving one's self of certain kinds of food or drink, especially of meat.
v. t.
Habitual moderation in regard to the indulgence of the natural appetites and passions; restrained or moderate indulgence; moderation; as, temperance in eating and drinking; temperance in the indulgence of joy or mirth; specifically, moderation, and sometimes abstinence, in respect to using intoxicating liquors.
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One pledged to entire abstinence from all intoxicating drinks.
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Total abstinence from spirituous liquor.
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Abstinence.
v. t.
To look upon, as in a certain relation; to hold as an popinion; to consider; as, to regard abstinence from wine as a duty; to regard another as a friend or enemy.
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Careful; cautious; exact; nice; as, scrupulous abstinence from labor; scrupulous performance of duties.
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Want of abstinence; indulgence.
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With abstinence.
n.
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.
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One of a sect among the Jews in the time of our Savior, remarkable for their strictness and abstinence.
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Voluntary abstinence from food, for a space of time, as a spiritual discipline, or as a token of religious humiliation.
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A time of fasting, whether a day, week, or longer time; a period of abstinence from food or certain kinds of food; as, an annual fast.
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Abstinence from sleep, whether at a time when sleep is customary or not; the act of keeping awake, or the state of being awake, or the state of being awake; sleeplessness; wakefulness; watch.
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To practice abstinence as a religious exercise or duty; to abstain from food voluntarily for a time, for the mortification of the body or appetites, or as a token of grief, or humiliation and penitence.
n.
The principle or practice of entire abstinence, esp. from intoxicating drinks.
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