abstainment
nounEtymology From abstain + -ment.
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Rare 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 […]1871, Edward Nichols Dennys, The alpha, or First principle of the human mind, page 227:
- 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.1917, Edna Ferber, Fanny herself: