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Definition of Abstaining
1. abstain [v] - See also: abstain
Lexicographical Neighbors of Abstaining
Literary usage of Abstaining
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lectures on the Philosophy of the Human Mind by Thomas Brown (1824)
"ON OUR NEGATIVE DUTIES TO OTHERS—abstaining FROM ROBBING THEM OF THE AFFECTIONS
OF OTHERS—ON abstaining FROM INJURING THE CHARACTERS OF OTHERS—ON VERACITY. ..."
2. The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin, and an Account of Its Progress Down by Alexander Kinglake (1877)
"The Allies still abstaining from the attack. The advanced-guard of the Russian
army on the North Side. of the army until the evening. ..."
3. Thucydides Translated Into English by Benjamin Jowett, Thucydides (1881)
"... and put the citizens BC 423. to the sword ; and, while abstaining from
hostilities elsewhere, they prepared to carry out their intentions. ..."
4. Dictionary of national biography by Leslie Stephen, Sidney Lee (1893)
"The education of her sons was her special care [see under MALCOLM III], and was
repaid by servance of the Lord's day by abstaining from work, the abolition ..."
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