abstinence English

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abstinence Noun

— Abstinence is when someone is abstaining from something or when someone does not take part in something. It's usually used to refer to not drinking alcohol or not having sex. Abstinence stops you from getting drunk. My brother's abstinence protected him from sexually transmitted diseases.

abstinence

— noun the trait of abstaining (especially from alcohol)

— noun act or practice of refraining from indulging an appetite

Synonyms abstinence synonyms

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abstinence English » English

temperance

abstention

fasting

continence

abstemiousness

sobriety

self-control

teetotalism

self-restraint

restraint

forbearance

total abstinence

starvation

self control

refraining

moderation

diet

continency

check

abstaining

abnegation

waive

turndown

temperateness

teetotaling

taboo

surrender

stop

standoffishness

soberness

self-repression

self-inhibition

self restraint

self discipline

reticence

renunciation

renounce

refusal

refrain

rebuff

reasonableness

purifying by fasting

prohibition

offishness

not eating

nephalism

naysaying

mortification

moderationism

moderateness

Topics abstinence topics

What do people use abstinence to talk about?

Person Life Sexual relations

Virginity

• What words refer to maintaining your virginity?
  abstain (from sex) abstinence restraint celibacy chastity continence honor purity virtue

Social behavior Behavior

Self-controlled

• What words refer to the quality of being self-controlled?
  self-control abnegation abstention abstinence asceticism constraint discipline equanimity forbearance moderation poise reserve restraint self-denial self-discipline sobriety stoicism sufferance temperance tolerance toleration

Examples abstinence examples

How do I use abstinence in a sentence?

Simple sentences

The church teaches abstinence before marriage.

Reagan advised sexual abstinence instead of methods of protection.

Movie subtitles

With a degree of abstinence, it becomes me calendar.

Refrain tonight, and that shall lend a kind of easiness to the next abstinence, the next more easy.

Abstinence.

How long must I endure your abstinence from pleasure?

Now Brothers, we relieve you for the day from your rule of abstinence.

I'm in favor of abstinence.

We'll try to ease abstinence.

Abstinence is unhealthy, inhuman, and what's worse, counterrevolutionary!

Satan will take us all if we don't do penance for our sins and if we don't submit our flesh to abstinence.

Well, this abstinence seems to agree with you..

Did you forget cleanliness and abstinence are next to Godliness?

We're pointing out your husband's abstinence.

During one horrible abstinence crisis he even accomplish the house record. 380 switch-overs in just 26 second.

After12years of total sexual abstinence, withtheexceptionofa fleeting and violent romance withthefierceSaladin:but even that had left untouched thedesireto see his beloved wife again.

No more abstinence! - Muchachos, take it easy with my things.

I'm in favor of abstinence. You could say I'm against giving up Lent.

One of us will slip next to him. He's had a long period of abstinence.

Abstinence isn't going to be anything new around here.

The only difference is the monastery you're gonna go back to. doesn't believe in chastity. or abstinence.

So can too much abstinence.

See where abstinence leads to!

I have gotten used to abstinence.

Good for Dolores! No more abstinence!

Total abstinence is all that'll work.

He says he's taken a vow of abstinence.

I fear Miss Angela may merely attribute Mr Glossop's abstinence to indigestion.

You consider total abstinence to be a handicap in a gentleman wishing to make a proposal of marriage?

Abstinence?

Ever since I read his pamphlets, abstinence has been both my keeper and my reward.

You know, Dr. Crane, someone once said that long periods of abstinence can actually refresh the soul.

Buddha teaches the way to n irvana is through moderation, not abstinence.

So does abstinence.

I did. But abstinence can make you discover new things about yourself.

News and current affairs

Most disturbing was the fact that no improvement in performance occurred with increasing abstinence.

This is true not only of abstinence campaigns, for which there is no evidence of effectiveness, but also for many other mainstays of the AIDS response.

His advice is essentially to practice a form of digital abstinence.