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abstinencenoun voluntary restraint in the satisfaction of one's appetitesa cleric vainly preaching abstinence in a world where self-indulgence is regarded as almost a virtue continence, self-abnegation, self-denial, sobriety, temperance control, forbearance, restraintdiscipline, self-command, self-control, self-discipline, self-masteryasceticism, austerity self-indulgence gluttony, greed, rapaciousness, rapacity, voraciousness, voracityhedonism, sensuality, sybaritism abstention from sexual intercoursean AIDS-prevention program that relies primarily on abstinence celibacy, chasteness, chastity, continence modesty, purityhonor, innocence, virginity, virtue debauchery, lechery, licentiousness, venery, wenching, whoring in the 13th century |