Crossword-Solution: ABSTINENCE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Abstinence | n. | 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 intoxicating beverages, -- called also total abstinence. |
| Abstinence | n. | The practice of self-denial by depriving one's self of certain kinds of food or drink, especially of meat. |
We have 72 clues for the answer “ABSTINENCE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| If you pass the bar, what will it mean? | 1 answer |
| It's promised with a promise ring | 1 answer |
| Fast, e.g. | 2 answers |
| Teetotaler's choice | 2 answers |
| ENJOYMENT (ant.) | 6 answers |
| Fasting | 6 answers |
| WEIGHT-reduction plan | 6 answers |
| continence | 10 answers |
| ABNEGATION | 11 answers |
| ASCETICISM | 15 answers |
| Abstention | 20 answers |
| stiff neck | 37 answers |
| sobriety | 46 answers |
| tightness | 49 answers |
| meagreness | 49 answers |
| rigidity | 50 answers |
| Malady | 51 answers |
| starvation | 53 answers |
| forbearance | 56 answers |
| paucity | 57 answers |
| Famine | 58 answers |
| Temperance | 58 answers |
| irregularity | 59 answers |
| Stiffness | 61 answers |
| GOOD points | 61 answers |
| Scarcity | 61 answers |
| Poverty | 61 answers |
| constriction | 61 answers |
| shrinkage | 61 answers |
| Hardness | 62 answers |
| Omission | 63 answers |
| Shrinking ___ | 64 answers |
| shortcoming | 64 answers |
| deprivation | 65 answers |
| Dearth | 65 answers |
| purity | 65 answers |
| Hunger | 66 answers |
| loss | 67 answers |
| drought | 67 answers |
| Absence | 67 answers |
| derangement | 67 answers |
| dwindling | 68 answers |
| Diet | 68 answers |
| Shortening | 68 answers |
| Shortage | 68 answers |
| Laxity | 68 answers |
| Deficiency | 69 answers |
| Inadequacy | 69 answers |
| deficit | 70 answers |
| insufficiency | 70 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
EARA
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with ABSTINENCE (5)
Bold deed thou hast presum’d, adventrous _Eve_, And peril great provok’t, who thus hast dar’d Had it bin onely coveting to Eye That sacred Fruit, sacred to abstinence, Much more to taste it under banne to touch.
The bargain might appear unequal; but there was still another consideration in the scales; for while Jekyll would suffer smartingly in the fires of abstinence, Hyde would be not even conscious of all that he had lost.
Having dispelled the cold, he turned eagerly to the smoking mess which was placed before him, and ate with a haste and an apparent relish, that seemed to betoken long abstinence from food.
Hence, up to the date of the introduction of the Universal Colour Bill, the Circles had not only held their own, but even increased their lead of the other classes by abstinence from the popular fashion.
Now it would be a hundred dollars, now sixty; now she would content herself with only twenty; and once, after a fortnight's abstinence, she permitted herself a positive debauch of five hundred.
Quotes with ABSTINENCE (3)
The idea of celibate vampires is ridiculous. To me, vampires are sex. I don't get a vampire story about abstinence. I don't care about high school students. I find them irritating and uninformed.
You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Dogs do not ritually urinate in the hope of persuading heaven to do the same and send down rain. Asses do not bray a liturgy to cloudless skies. Nor do cats attempt, by abstinence from cat's meat, to wheedle the feline spirits into benevolence. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough.
Conservatives, who have presumed that the key to preventing AIDS is abstinence-only education, and liberals, who have focused on distribution of condoms, should both note that the intervention that has tested most cost-effective in Africa is neither... Secular bleeding hearts and religious bleeding hearts will have to forge a common cause.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, WSJ.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1990–2020).