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Definition of Abstinences

1. abstinence [n] - See also: abstinence

Lexicographical Neighbors of Abstinences

Literary usage of Abstinences

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. First and Last Things: A Confession of Faith and a Rule of Life by Herbert George Wells (1908)
"OF abstinences AND DISCIPLINES.—From these large issues of conduct let me ... And first about abstinences and disciplines. I have already confessed (Book II ..."

2. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"... which required absolute obedience, checked individual caprice, and prescribed certain exercises and abstinences binding on all members of the community. ..."

3. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"Of the time and day when their Lent beginneth in the Countrey of Prete Janni: and strange abstinences, and other bodily exercises, with other their holies. ..."

4. Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"Of the time and day when their Lent beginneth in the Countrey of Prete Janni: and strange abstinences, and other bodily exercises, with other their holies. ..."

5. The Necessity of Reforming the Church by Jean Calvin, Henry Beveridge (1844)
"another — to hear many masses and to some — to wear ont their bodies, by I know, not what abstinences — abstinences having nothing in common with Christian ..."

6. Documents Illustrative of the History of the Church by Beresford James Kidd (1920)
"... and now it has burst forth again.-—A. Souter, Tertullian Against Praxeas, 29 sq. No. 103.—The abstinences of Montanism From Tertullian, ..."

7. A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities: Comprising the History, Institutions by William Smith, Samuel Cheetham (1880)
"Moreover, in those parts of the church where the system prevailed, penance consisted almost exclusively of long fasts and abstinences, and it must ..."

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