Abstention is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ABSTENTION in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the act of abstaining
• an instance of declining to vote for or against a proposal or motion
• the trait of abstaining (especially from alcohol)
• restraint in one's consumption; abstinence
ADJECTIVE:
• The act of abstaining; a holding aloof.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the act or practice of abstaining

Words related to ABSTENTION

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Words that contain ABSTENTION

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How to use ABSTENTION in a sentence

• The policy of abstention has always seemed to me the weakest possible line in politics.
• This almost general abstention of electors, compared with the eagerness of former times, is but the avowal of the error to which your masquerade has given rise.
• It is clear that abstention from violence and persistence in the programme are our only and surest chance of attaining our end.
• The thought is with us always of the suffering and misery entailed, from which no country in Europe will escape by abstention, and from which no neutrality will save us.
• Paula wanted him, was getting restless, moody, as nearly as it was possible for her to be ill-natured over his abstention.
• If they complain either of your abstention from their cause or your adhesion to any other, you have an unanswerable answer.
• At this period, after eighteen months of abstention, and for the last time, I took the Sacrament.
• Skelmersdale and in the morning there came a little note from her designed to correct this abstention.
• It would, perhaps, have been difficult for the Seleucid princes, even had they desired it, to pursue a policy of absolute abstention in the wars of their western neighbors.
• As it was, however, the idea of abstention seems never to have occurred to them.
• That this was their design was proved by the abstention of the newcomers from firing or stone-slinging.
• But mere abstention from food has no effect on the spirit.
• Still, in the present case I am against abstention.
• The abstention was as marked as any look could have been.
• Civility and consideration in her dealings, and a careful abstention from wanton aggression and insult, were all-sufficient.
• By his abstention, however, sentiment was fine-trained rather than extinguished.
• In Italy itself a great clerical party is working silently but ceaselessly, under the mask of abstention from the elections, to recover its political power.
• Yet as his knowledge and his judgment grew, his modesty and his abstention from interference likewise grew.
• After six days of abstention from food she was rapt away to an unknown place, where a radiant being welcomed her.
• And I could wish abstention to exist, and even to be evident, in my words.
• The letters continue with reference to the machinery of the elections, and means of preventing abstention from the poll, for which Lassalle professes to have found a magic charm.
• The Unionists leaders, however, whom we can absolutely trust, have decided that abstention from debate would be an error.

Similar words containing ABSTEN without suffix tion

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