Abstinence is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ABSTINENCE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• voluntary forbearance esp. from indulgence of an appetite, also ABSTINENCY
• the practice of restraining oneself from indulging in something, typically alcohol or sex
• 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 practice of self-denial by depriving one\'s self of certain kinds of food or drink, especially of meat.
• the trait of abstaining (especially from alcohol)
• act or practice of refraining from indulging an appetite
• forbearance
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• voluntary forbearance especially from indulgence of an appetite or craving or from eating some foods

Words related to ABSTINENCE

abstinences15 abstinency17 abstinently16 forbearance18

Words that contain ABSTINENCE

abstinences15 inabstinence16 inabstinences17

How to use ABSTINENCE in a sentence

• We sometimes wish, that we had observed the same abstinence with Daniel.
• For this, diligence in business, abstinence from pleasures, privation even, of everything that does not endanger health, are to be joyfully welcomed and borne.
• Nature was his physician, and innocence and abstinence would have kept him healthful to immortality.
• And all the Setch prayed in one church, and were willing to defend it to their last drop of blood, although they would not hearken to aught about fasting or abstinence.
• One of the many excellent things which Plutarch tells of Socrates is this noteworthy incident of his power of abstinence.
• No religious motive is assigned for this abstinence.
• Retirement and abstinence useful to repentance 111.
• No wonder he rushed into print to assure the public that he was not in favor of total abstinence.
• He still hoped to be able to practise moderation, and drink within bounds, and consequently persuaded himself that total abstinence was not necessary in his case.
• Having thus taken the medal, and pledged himself to sobriety, and a total abstinence from all intoxicating liquors, his first feeling was very difficult to describe.
• Legal purity was to be obtained only by the observance of a multitude of trifling ceremonies and the abstinence from ten thousand acts in their nature wholly indifferent.
• A man would not put upon himself the self-denial and restraint, which abstinence from marriage implied, for a longer period than he could help.
• Though at times he would drink freely enough of claret, he still adhered to his system of abstinence in food.
• My stomach is entirely destroyed by long abstinence, and the rest will probably follow.
• The complaint is made by those whose lives have been far otherwise than continent, that abstinence occasions suffering, from which indulgence gives relief.
• The principle of total abstinence was so novel to many, that they thought its advocates must be almost insane.
• The real elements of cost of production he looks upon as labour, abstinence and risk, the second of these falling mainly, though not necessarily, upon the capitalist.
• He was famed as an orator not only in his denomination and in the county but in the National Order of Total Abstinence, of which he was a leading light.
• He mostly refrained on the Sabbath until the evening when a long quiet smoke compensated him for abstinence during two sermons.
• That is, Total Abstinence from Tobacco, as well as from Ardent Spirits.
• Barker at Drybone had enjoined total abstinence from all excitement.
• The fashion that has taught women self-control in eating has shown their husbands the value of abstinence.
• Augustin and his determined abstinence from intercourse with her since.
• Father Mathew dismounted, and began to administer the pledge of abstinence to those who were willing to receive it.
• Cazziva a former cacique instituted a fast or abstinence of six or seven days, which the natives still practise.
• Total abstinence was naturally more prevalent among church members than among those outside of the church, and this, of course, was the foundation upon which prohibition rested.
• These two, total abstinence and prohibition, will eliminate the drink evil as typhoid and yellow fever have been eliminated.

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