abstainment
nounEtymology
From abstain + -ment.
Definitions
An act of abstaining
An act of abstaining; an abstention.
- Criminality consists in the Intention; and the mere abstainment therefrom, through motives of hope or fear, is not Innocence; but Prudence […]
- It is the custom in the household of Atonement Day fasters of the old school to begin the evening meal, after the twenty-four hours of abstainment, with coffee and freshly baked coffee cake of every variety.
The neighborhood
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for abstainment. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA