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n. The act or practice of refraining from indulging an appetite or desire, especially for alcoholic drink or sexual intercourse.

n. Delay of spending to accrue capital.

n. 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.

n. The practice of self-denial by depriving one's self of certain kinds of food or drink, especially of meat.

n. In general, the act or practice of voluntarily refraining from the use of something or from some action; abnegation.

n. More specifically The refraining from indulgence in the pleasures of the table, or from customary gratifications of the senses or the intellect, either partially or wholly.

n. In a still narrower sense— Forbearance from the use of alcoholic liquors as a beverage: in this sense usually preceded by the adjective total. Eccles., the refraining from certain kinds of food or drink on certain days, as from flesh on Fridays.

n. The act of abstaining from the use of, or from the doing of, something; specifically, in economics, voluntary abstention from the consumption of anything which one has the power of consuming or using, with the purpose of increasing one's resources or accumulating wealth for future enjoyment.

n. the trait of abstaining (especially from alcohol)

n. act or practice of refraining from indulging an appetite

self-denial    self-discipline   

day of abstinence    abstention    continence   

total abstinence   

abstaining    abstention    withholdment    nephelism    temperance    refrainment    forbearance   

chastity    celibacy    continence    asceticism    renunciation    temperance    penance    self-restraint    abstention    fasting