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For most of us, the best response to these risks is not complete abstention, but moderate and communal enjoyment of beer and wine.
THE PANDEMIC CHANGED HOW WE DRINK. IT'S TIME TO GO BACK TO THE JOY OF SOCIAL DRINKINGEDWARD SLINGERLANDDECEMBER 30, 2021TIMEBut M. Nicklauss, with his great experience of the world, deemed this almost general abstention of the fair sex unnatural.
THE NABOBALPHONSE DAUDETHe has not been there since, and the following pages will perhaps explain the reason of his abstention.
MASTERPIECES OF MYSTERY, VOL. 1 (OF 4)VARIOUSThe abstention of a single sense from the coupling is enough to enfeeble the pleasure very greatly.
THE NATURAL PHILOSOPHY OF LOVEREMY DE GOURMONTA total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARYAMBROSE BIERCEIf he were not going to build on the ground so carefully prepared, to what end this wariness and this abstention?
THE LONG NIGHTSTANLEY WEYMANAbstention from voting is to be treated as a vote against the proposal under discussion.
HARPER'S PICTORIAL LIBRARY OF THE WORLD WAR, VOLUME XIIVARIOUSThe common mistake is in bathing before breakfast, when the system is at a low ebb, owing to the long abstention from food.
NERVOUS BREAKDOWNS AND HOW TO AVOID THEMCHARLES DAVID MUSGROVEAbstention from labour is not only a honorific or meritorious act, but it presently comes to be a requisite of decency.
THE THEORY OF THE LEISURE CLASSTHORSTEIN VEBLENTo attain this end, neither an exhaustive investigation of facts nor a conscientious abstention from fiction was necessary.
ELEMENTARY GUIDE TO LITERARY CRITICISMF. V. N. PAINTERWORDS RELATED TO ABSTENTION
- abandonment
- abjuration
- abnegation
- abstention
- cancellation
- demission
- denial
- disavowal
- disclaimer
- eschewal
- eschewing
- forbearing
- forswearing
- giving up
- rebuff
- refusal
- relinquishment
- remission
- renouncement
- renunciation
- repeal
- repudiation
- resignation
- sacrifice
- self-abnegation
- self-denial
- self-sacrifice
- spurning
- surrender
- veto
- waiver
- yielding
- abandonment
- abjuration
- abnegation
- abstention
- cancellation
- demission
- denial
- disavowal
- disclaimer
- eschewal
- eschewing
- forbearing
- forswearing
- giving up
- quitclaim
- rebuff
- remission
- renouncement
- renunciation
- repeal
- repudiation
- resignation
- sacrifice
- self-abnegation
- self-denial
- self-sacrifice
- spurning
- surrender
- veto
- waiver
- yielding
- abdication
- abjuration
- abnegation
- abstention
- cancellation
- denial
- disavowal
- disclaimer
- eschewal
- eschewing
- forbearing
- forswearing
- giving up
- rebuff
- refusal
- relinquishment
- remission
- renouncement
- repeal
- repudiation
- resignation
- sacrifice
- self-abnegation
- self-denial
- self-sacrifice
- spurning
- surrender
- veto
- waiver
- yielding
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