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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "abstinence" in a sentence

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    abstinence


    1. Even at that, the Bible says to be moderate with alcohol, but does not insist on total abstinence


    2. Food tastes absolutely wonderful after my couple of days’ abstinence


    3. Sexual Abstinence as a definitive means of avoiding teenage pregnancy is oftentimes treated as an afterthought in many of our schools Special Ed Programs


    4. A more disturbing criticism is who PEPFAR largely excludes because of its focus on abstinence


    5. ’ They told us that abstinence doesn’t work


    6. abstinence shall shine above the stars, whereas our faces shall be blacker than darkness? 56 For while we lived and committed


    7. Oh, I'd heard the lectures in health class advocating abstinence and promoting the


    8. So, I continued my abstinence from alcohol for those 40 days


    9. Luckily, because I turned myself in and requested help, EB gave me a chance and I did not blow it—partly because of my two periods of abstinence years earlier when I drank again; I saw that “my disease had been in the parking lot doing pushups while I was dry as dust and twice as useless


    10. 55 And that the faces of those who have used abstinence shall shine above the stars whereas our faces shall be blacker than darkness? 56 For while we lived and committed iniquity we considered not that we should begin to suffer for it after death

    11. This was made painfully clear as Moshe felt the continued growling of hunger that argued against the abstinence that he had chosen for himself and those who now lay close by


    12. growling of hunger that argued against the abstinence that he had chosen for himself and


    13. Meditation, abstinence in all, the observation of moral duties, gentle


    14. The last set of volunteers will not even begin their six weeks of abstinence for ten more weeks


    15. Recovery isn’t just abstinence," she explained


    16. Most of them have technically finished their six weeks of abstinence


    17. “As of my last contact with them," Jerry said, “two hundred and fifty of them were supposed to have completed the entire six weeks of abstinence, but only one hundred and twenty three of them remained


    18. Others, like Sanders, were appalled by the new knowledge that they had become profoundly addicted to the drug, and attempted to recover through abstinence


    19. Carter," Cox redirected, “could you describe your symptoms that began on the fifth day of abstinence?"


    20. “Your Honor, we are trying to establish this witness’s condition at the time of his so called abstinence," Pratt explained

    21. Fernanda carried a delicate calendar with small gold-en keys on which her spiritual adviser had marked in purple ink the dates of venereal abstinence


    22. For several months he was seen wandering about with a toolbox that the gypsies must have left behind in José Arcadio Buendía’s days, and no one knew whether because of the involuntary exercise, the winter tedium or the imposed abstinence, but his belly was deflating little by little like a wineskin and his face of a beatific tortoise was becoming less bloodshot and his double chin less prominent until he became less pachydermic all over and was able to tie his own shoes again


    23. Focusing on such abstinence from materialism and


    24. Abstinence is preached and multiple sexual partners are strongly discouraged


    25. still in its thrall, why would we still be hearing politicians blather at us about abortion, about gay rights, and about abstinence as federal birth


    26. She had even stopped satisfying her own needs some time ago as her forced abstinence slowly, steadily sapped her libido away, but in the last hours it had returned with such incredible force that now she was seriously worried she might come all over this bed while Clayton Hargrave watched, teasing her with barely a fingertip to her skin


    27. here we have it, a formal display on abstinence, sequence and a capacity for something


    28. As if to place Rani’s unease in their place in its contrast, that Sunday afternoon, Tara visited the Sathyams as they were having their tea after siesta, as Sathyam had developed a taste for tea, fed up giving an explanation for his abstinence


    29. ‘Isn’t it clear that something is troubling them both? What it could be? Are they in love and in heat as well? Isn’t it possible that they’re having sex here in my absence? Now my untimely presence on top of a week’s abstinence is what might be irritating them, isn’t it? So it seems, they’ve made it to the post sooner than I expected


    30. Credit him for cleaning up the public toilets but why not condemn him for having forced his spouse to do the same; why laud him for his quixotic abstinence unmindful of his wife’s conjugal plight; was he not an inveterate autocrat in the democratic garb; what about his falling afoul of Prakasam, and how he played favorites with Nehru

    31. “That entity in which all yagya, penance, canons, abstinence merge is none else but ‘I’ and the


    32. For example, the debate over providing condoms to teens because “they"re going to have sex anyway,” versus promoting teen abstinence, should be outside of any government role


    33. We have no problem with a religious group running an advertisement promoting abstinence


    34. Victorian love titillated and satisfied by heightened abstinence; contemporary sexuality is often heightened by its spontaneity, thus eliminating the sexual abstinence that heightened the sense of Victorian Eros


    35. of a 19-year-old with a urinary-tract wart found that abstinence from a high intake of pork


    36. out the carriage again, her eyes beholding a strange emotion of abstinence


    37. Another habit of his that baffles me is his abstinence from most common local food delicacies; and a regular fasting habit that runs into days most of the time, which purpose I don’t know of


    38. They were replaced with either abstinence or prevention


    39. Just off the topic here this is one of the reasons why I advocate abstinence


    40. Which is not all that bad considering that the higher echelons of the clergy, in our days, consider the vows of celibacy to entail abstinence from just the female sex

    41. Why have they laid so much stress on that? Abstinence,


    42. Chi, meditation, visualization, abstinence of negative thought, positive focus and spiritual


    43. His deliberate abstinence was designed to draw the sexual energy of


    44. declaration of abstinence, in this magical instant of now,' she said grinning warmly


    45. The progress of drunkenness in England requires for its repression not merely the advocacy of total abstinence, but Christ's distinct threatening of the 'furnace of fire’ to all those who defy God by practising, or abetting with their capital, habits of intoxication


    46. periods she repeated to herself over and over again her affirmation of abstinence from


    47. To the next abstinence: the next more easy;


    48. In the honour given to rulers, in the abstinence of the warrior class from agriculture, handicrafts, and trade in general, in the institution of common meals, and in the attention paid to gymnastics and military training--in all these respects this State will resemble the former


    49. This abstinence, so remarkable in an Indian, when he possessed the means of satisfying hunger, at length attracted the notice of Heyward


    50. "In a word," said Mercedes, "it was a way of assuring me that his abstinence was intended













































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    Synonyms for "abstinence"

    abstinence abstention forbearance withholding self-denial self-restraint abstemiousness moderation sobriety

    "abstinence" definitions

    the trait of abstaining (especially from alcohol)


    act or practice of refraining from indulging an appetite