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abstinence
1 ENTRIES FOUND:
Learner's definition of ABSTINENCE
[noncount]
: the practice of not doing or having something that is wanted or enjoyable : the practice of abstaining from something节制；禁绝 — often + from
- The program promoted sexual abstinence for young people.那档节目提倡年轻人节制性行为。
- abstinence from sex禁欲
- He started drinking again after a long period of total/complete abstinence from alcohol.他彻底戒酒很长一段时间之后又喝上了。
abstinence
noun
ab·sti·nence ˈab-stə-nən(t)s 
1
: the practice of abstaining from something : the practice of not doing or having something that is wanted or enjoyable
abstinently adverb
Example Sentences
The program promoted sexual abstinence for young people. a cleric vainly preaching abstinence in a world where self-indulgence is regarded as almost a virtue
Recent Examples on the Web Johns Hopkins Medicine in 2014 found psilocybin helped longtime smokers quit, with an abstinence rate of 80% after six months. 
Fortune, 24 Aug. 2022 The strategy largely rests on the concept of harm reduction, focused not on helping drug users achieve abstinence but on lowering their risk of dying or acquiring infectious diseases. New York Times, 26 July 2022 The purity movement didn’t announce its arrival in this country with abstinence pledges and brash daddy-daughter dances. Sarah Green, refinery29.com, 17 Apr. 2022 These programs generally have better track records than even methadone programs for helping to ultimately achieve heroin abstinence. Joseph Friedman, Time, 6 Apr. 2022 Singer will advise attendees on how to have a traditional college experience while remaining abstinent, and keeping abstinence as the top priority while performing academically, as well as share campus resources and other tips. courant.com, 18 Jan. 2022 Instead of condemning such conduct, the strategy aims to reduce its negative impacts — by offering condoms, for instance, rather than solely abstinence messages. Bethany Rodgers, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 Aug. 2021 That policy was partially lifted 30 years later, when the agency moved from a lifetime ban to a year of abstinence before giving blood. Megan Molteni, STAT, 7 Aug. 2022 Patrick Gallahue, a spokesman for the health department, declined to comment on Weiss’s reassignment but pushed back against his call for temporary abstinence. Fenit Nirappil And Amrita Jayakumar, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Aug. 2022 See More
Fortune, 24 Aug. 2022 The strategy largely rests on the concept of harm reduction, focused not on helping drug users achieve abstinence but on lowering their risk of dying or acquiring infectious diseases. New York Times, 26 July 2022 The purity movement didn’t announce its arrival in this country with abstinence pledges and brash daddy-daughter dances. Sarah Green, refinery29.com, 17 Apr. 2022 These programs generally have better track records than even methadone programs for helping to ultimately achieve heroin abstinence. Joseph Friedman, Time, 6 Apr. 2022 Singer will advise attendees on how to have a traditional college experience while remaining abstinent, and keeping abstinence as the top priority while performing academically, as well as share campus resources and other tips. courant.com, 18 Jan. 2022 Instead of condemning such conduct, the strategy aims to reduce its negative impacts — by offering condoms, for instance, rather than solely abstinence messages. Bethany Rodgers, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 Aug. 2021 That policy was partially lifted 30 years later, when the agency moved from a lifetime ban to a year of abstinence before giving blood. Megan Molteni, STAT, 7 Aug. 2022 Patrick Gallahue, a spokesman for the health department, declined to comment on Weiss’s reassignment but pushed back against his call for temporary abstinence. Fenit Nirappil And Amrita Jayakumar, Anchorage Daily News, 5 Aug. 2022 See More Word History
Etymology
Middle English, borrowed from Anglo-French, borrowed from Latin abstinentia, noun derivative of abstinent-, abstinens, present participle of abstinēre "to abstain"
First Known Use
13th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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