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abstinence    音标拼音: ['æbstənəns]
n. 节制,禁欲,戒酒

节制,禁欲,戒酒

abstinence
n 1: the trait of abstaining (especially from alcohol) [synonym:
{abstinence}, {abstention}]
2: act or practice of refraining from indulging an appetite

Abstinence \Ab"sti*nence\, n. [F. abstinence, L. abstinentia,
fr. abstinere. See {Abstain}.]
1. The act or practice of abstaining; voluntary forbearance
of any action, especially the refraining from an
indulgence of appetite, or from customary gratifications
of animal or sensual propensities. Specifically, the
practice of abstaining from intoxicating beverages, --
called also {total abstinence}.
[1913 Webster]

The abstinence from a present pleasure that offers
itself is a pain, nay, oftentimes, a very great one.
--Locke.
[1913 Webster]

2. The practice of self-denial by depriving one's self of
certain kinds of food or drink, especially of meat.
[1913 Webster]

Penance, fasts, and abstinence,
To punish bodies for the soul's offense. --Dryden.
[1913 Webster]

124 Moby Thesaurus words for "abstinence":
Albigensianism, Catharism, Encratism, Franciscanism, Friday,
Lenten fare, Platonic love, Pythagoreanism, Pythagorism,
Rechabitism, Sabbatarianism, Shakerism, Spartan fare, Stoicism,
Trappism, Waldensianism, Yoga, abnegation, abstainment,
abstemiousness, abstention, abstinence from food,
anchoritic monasticism, anchoritism, asceticism, austerity,
avoidance, banyan day, calm, calmness, celibacy, chastity,
conservatism, constraint, continence, continency, control, cool,
desuetude, dispassion, disuse, eremitism, eschewal, evenness, fast,
fasting, fish day, flagellation, fruitarianism, gentleness,
golden mean, gymnosophy, happy medium, impartiality, intactness,
judiciousness, juste-milieu, lenity, maceration, maidenhead,
maidenhood, meden agan, mendicantism, middle way, mildness,
moderateness, moderation, moderationism, monachism, monasticism,
mortification, nephalism, neutrality, nonemployment, nonprevalence,
nonuse, nonviolence, nothing in excess, obsolescence, obsoleteness,
obsoletion, obsoletism, pacifism, pensioning off, plain living,
prudence, punishment of Tantalus, puritanism, refraining,
refrainment, renunciation, repose, restraint,
restriction of intake, retirement, rigor, self-abnegation,
self-control, self-denial, self-mortification, self-restraint,
serenity, sexual abstinence, simple diet, sobriety, spare diet,
stability, starvation, steadiness, superannuation, teetotalism,
temperance, temperateness, the pledge, total abstinence,
tranquillity, unexcessiveness, unextravagance, unextremeness,
unprevalence, vegetarianism, via media, virginity,
voluntary poverty

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  • Abstinence - Wikipedia
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    abstinence (from something) the practice of not allowing yourself something, especially food, alcoholic drinks or sex, for moral, religious or health reasons Want to learn more? Definition of abstinence noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more
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