Synonyms:
abstinence
Meaning: act or practice of refraining from indulging an appetite
Synonyms:
abstinence, abstention
Meaning: the trait of abstaining (especially from alcohol)
Usage examples
In England they consist not only in abstinence from evil, but in doing good.
In other words, he prefers death and murder due to ambition, to abstinence and wisdom.
We have a right to claim abstinence from interference with our rights from any Government on the earth.
The preceding instances may be objected to, although unreasonably, as drawn from contingencies impossible among us: opinion, in this country, not being likely to enforce abstinence from meats, or to interfere with people for worshipping, and for either marrying or not marrying, according to their creed or inclination.
The phrases that the good, kind people repeat to themselves and to one another sound like "abstinence," "temperance," "thrift," "virtue." Sometimes they say them backward, when they sound like "prodigality," "drunkenness," "wastefulness," and "immorality." They do not really know the meaning of these phrases, but they think they do, and that is all that is necessary for somnambulists.