noun

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The act of restraining oneself.

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The act of abstaining; a holding aloof; refraining from.

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The act of declining to vote on a particular issue.

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Non-participation in the political world; as a country avoiding international affairs.

Examples of abstentions in a Sentence

These abstentions are prescribed for the king and a few other persons; there is no evidence that they were observed by all the people.

We may therefore expect in primitive asceticism to find many abstentions and much self-torture apparently valueless for the training of character and discipline of the feelings, which are the essence of any healthy asceticism.

Manifest has noted that approximately a dozen companies have failed to record abstentions in their proxy poll disclosures.

Not counting the three abstentions, a majority of NER members were open to the idea of research cloning under strictly regulated conditions.

Not to mention the possibility that the machine might register my votes wrong, rather than just register some abstentions where I actually voted.

The majority of staff voted in favor of the proposal while there was one against and a few abstentions.

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