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Concordances
Nave Topical Bible
• Total Abstinence
• Abstinence, Total
Thompson Chain Reference
• Total Abstinence
• Abstinence
Dictionaries
American Church Dictionary
• Abstinence
Baker's Evangelical Dictionary
• Abstain, Abstinence
Charles Buck Dictionary
• Abstinents
• Abstinence
Fausset Bible Dictionary
• Abstinence
Holman Bible Dictionary
• Abstinence
Hastings' NT Dictionary
• Abstinence
King James Dictionary
• Abstinence
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Law of Abstinence
• Abstinence, Law of
Hawker's Poor Man's Dictionary
• Abstinence
Vines' Expository Dictionary
• Abstain, Abstinence
Webster Dictionary
• Abstinently
• Abstinent
• Abstinency
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Watson's Theological Dictionary
• Abstinence
Encyclopedias
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Abstinence
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Abstinence
Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia
• Abstinence
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Abstinence
• Abstinents
• Total Abstinence
The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Abstinence
• Physical Effects of Abstinence
The Jewish Encyclopedia
• Abstinence
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(from Lat. abstinere, to abstain), the fact or habit of refraining from anything, but usually from the indulgence of the appetite and especially from strong drink. "Total abstinence" and "total abstainer" are associated with taking the pledge to abstain from alcoholic liquor (see Temperance). In the discipline of the Christian Church abstinence is the term for a less severe form of Fasting.