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Definition of the day : « abstinence »
- noun restraint from desires, especially physical desires
- Now that we have dined well, I would like to say aword on abstinence.
- Extract from : « Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. » by Charles James Lever
- When abstinence is the only choice, an ascetic frame of mind comes easy.
- Extract from : « My Reminiscences » by Rabindranath Tagore
- You will meet my abstinence by the only amends you can make to me.
- Extract from : « Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida » by Ouida
- It is abstinence from evil quite as much as eager realization of good.
- Extract from : « Strong Souls » by Charles Beard
- The Ihrm must be put on, and the obligations of abstinence which it entails must be observed.
- Extract from : « The Faith of Islam » by Edward Sell
- Another secret of their modest wealth is their abstinence from strong drink.
- Extract from : « Manasseh » by Maurus Jokai
- The worship of Brahma consists in doing penance and in abstinence.
- Extract from : « A Comparative View of Religions » by Johannes Henricus Scholten
- There must be abstinence from the sex relation before a fishing expedition.
- Extract from : « Folkways » by William Graham Sumner
- And now, secondly, notice the plain Christian duty of abstinence.
- Extract from : « Expositions of Holy Scripture » by Alexander Maclaren
- Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.
- Extract from : « Familiar Quotations » by John Bartlett