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Word Meanings - INABSTINENCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Want of abstinence; indulgence. "The inabstinence of Eve." Milton.

Related words: (words related to INABSTINENCE)

  • INDULGENCE
    Remission of the temporal punishment due to sins, after the guilt of sin has been remitted by sincere repentance; absolution from the censures and public penances of the church. It is a payment of the debt of justice to God by the application of
  • INABSTINENCE
    Want of abstinence; indulgence. "The inabstinence of Eve." Milton.
  • MILTONIAN
    Miltonic. Lowell.
  • MILTONIC
    Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
  • ABSTINENCE
    1. The act or practice of abstaining; voluntary forbearance of any action, especially the refraining from an indulgence of appetite, or from customary gratifications of animal or sensual propensities. Specifically, the practice of abstaining from
  • HAMILTON PERIOD
    A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.
  • SELF-INDULGENCE
    Indulgence of one's appetites, desires, or inclinations; -- the opposite of self-restraint, and self-denial.

 

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