Abstention Synonyms

ăb-stĕnshən, əb-
The trait of abstaining (especially from alcohol)
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. abstinence
  2. encratism
  3. pythagoreanism
  4. pythagorism
  5. rechabitism
  6. shakerism
  7. abstainment
  8. fruitarianism
  9. gymnosophy
  10. mugwumpery
  11. noncommitment
  12. nonemployment
  13. nonprevalence
  14. nonuse
  15. refrainment

Abstention Sentence Examples

  • Sir George Grey found it impossible to maintain a policy of total abstention from the affairs of the republics.

  • Reverting to the origin and the meaning of the feast, modern criticism draws attention to the different nature of the two observances combined with the name Passover, the pastoral sacrifice of the paschal lamb and the agricultural observance of a seven days' abstention from unleavened bread.

  • Abstention may show antipathy to the lot of them.

  • So successful was their prudential abstention that no regular war occurred between Turkey and Poland during the two centuries of their sway.

  • With regard to the abstention from leavened bread, the inquiry is somewhat more complicated.

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