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Abstainment

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An act of abstaining; an abstention. rare

    "Criminality consists in the Intention; and the mere abstainment therefrom, through motives of hope or fear, is not Innocence; but Prudence […]"

Etymology

From abstain + -ment.

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