Abstaining is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ABSTAINING in dictionary:

VERB:
• ABSTAIN, to refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self-denial from an action or practice
• refrain from drinking alcohol
• restrain oneself from doing or enjoying something
• formally decline to vote either for or against a proposal or motion
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to refrain voluntarily

Words related to ABSTAINING

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How to use ABSTAINING in a sentence

• Garbett admits, is chiefly a negative art, and consists in abstaining and not meddling.
• Abstaining from the use of illegal drugs, also necessary, will be a boon to your health.
• And it is discerned in two ways with respect to advantages, both by not desiring what it has not got, and by abstaining from what it is in its power to get.
• During the first few days, I endeavoured to master my illness by observing a strict diet, and abstaining from almost everything, but to no purpose.
• The power of acting greatly includes that of greatly abstaining from action.
• For the time being her former protector was letting her remain in inaction, abstaining from giving her any work whatever.
• No one would expect it of him, so his reputation would not be injured by abstaining from such a proceeding.
• A man can live long even after forsaking what is dearest to him, but he cannot do so, after abstaining from food.
• The one was the observation of the sabbath and the other was the preservation of the purity of their blood by abstaining from all marriage alliances with their Gentile neighbors.
• Medler who he was, and the promise he had given to Jacob Nowell, abstaining, of course, from any reference to the position he had once occupied towards Marian.
• By abstaining from trifling risks he would be ready to cope with any greater crisis.
• Adam and Eve were under obligations to keep their innocence by abstaining from the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
• The culprit was a tinker aged 71, accused in 1528 of abstaining from pork and wine, and using certain ablutions.
• Some young men make a habit of abstaining carefully during the day, in order to be the better prepared to drink at night.
• During nineteen days the fast is observed by abstaining from both food and drink from sunrise to sunset.
• Individuals have likewise found, or at least believed, that certain personal habits were best for them, for instance, abstaining from alcohol and tobacco in all forms.
• Surely abstaining from improper acts is ever the study of those that are good.
• His creed consisted in the reverence of God and the non-reverence of Satan, in the obedience to good and in the prohibition of the evil, and in abstaining from unclean things.
• Let me state some of the goods arising from abstaining from all fermented liquors.
• Is the fact that a wise physician will give as little medicine as possible any argument for his abstaining from giving any at all? But the argument may be met directly.
• The help which is rendered by the feeling of social cooeperation, on the other hand, is not removed by the mere abstaining from speaking.
• There are incidents of it too painful to relate, and I am quite sure I am consulting the wishes of the narrator by abstaining from going too minutely into detail.
• XVII TEMPERANCE AND THE TEEN AGE Temperance embraces the abstaining from everything that challenges self-control.
• The entertainments that have been given have been by the government officials, the Irish themselves carefully abstaining from any signs of satisfaction at the visit.

Similar words containing ABSTAIN without suffix ing

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