(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.
(n.) The practice of self-denial by depriving one's self of certain kinds of food or drink, especially of meat.
Example Sentences:
(1) The clinical usefulness of neonatal narcotic abstinence scales is reviewed, with special reference to their application in treatment.
(2) Within a treatment program, the use of various kinds of assessment methods and treatment modalities did not appear to be closely associated with the endorsement of abstinence vs nonabstinence treatment goals.
(3) In 227 smokers' clinic clients who managed at least one week of abstinence, ratings of withdrawal symptoms were used to predict subsequent return to smoking.
(4) Focus in this discussion is on the following: 1) female sterilization -- laparotomy, minilaparotomy, and colpotomy; endoscopic sterilization techniques; transcervical approaches to female sterilization; systemic nonsurgical female sterilization; and reversible techniques of female sterilization; 2) abortion -- pregnancy testing, long-term effects; and 3) systemic contraceptives -- steroidal contraception; locally active methods; vaginal foams, creams, and jellies; the diaphragm and other intravaginal barriers; IUDs; and periodic abstine nce.
(5) The convulsive episodes had several maxima during the abstinence period.
(6) The urinary HOP ratio immediately after abstinence from smoking was proportional to the mean daily number of cigarettes smoked in the past.
(7) Nine completed a 7-week trial, and eight maintained abstinence for at least 1 month as outpatients.
(8) All of these involve detection of the time of ovulation combined with abstinence during the fertile period of the cycle.
(9) In the light of these findings, our results suggest that the mechanism of aminoglycoside-induced inhibition of morphine abstinence may be related to the capacity of these antibiotics to block N-type calcium channels, and to decrease neuronal calcium availability.
(10) Infants prenatally exposed to narcotics become passively addicted in-utero and may undergo neonatal abstinence at birth.
(11) Each of 12 male habitual smokers with coronary artery disease was given dipyridamole (75 mg) and aspirin (324 mg), dipyridamole (75 mg) and placebo for aspirin, or a placebo for each drug 3 times daily for 1 week before each of three 20-minute periods (separated by 2 weeks) of smoking 2 cigarettes after a 12-hour period of abstinence.
(12) Orthostatic hypotension may also be observed in alcoholics during continuing abstinence from alcohol; in some of these patients failure of reflex noradrenaline release in response to standing may contribute to orthostatic hypotension.
(13) Naloxone, naltrexone, and cyclazocine precipitated abstinence syndrome which the animals generally controlled with increased morphine intake.
(14) From the viewpoint of behavioral biology, however, the method of periodic abstinence is not obviously natural.
(15) Abstinence phenomena largely disappeared within 10 days of discontinuation.
(16) The HDL2 mass concentration decreased significantly already during two abstinent days the decline continuing until the 8th day.
(17) The pharmacodynamic changes induced by smoking were generally most pronounced after the first cigarette following 10 hours' abstinence.
(18) Former users of alcohol, cigarettes, or illegal drugs achieved remarkable abstinence records.
(19) The WBC count showed only a small increase with longer abstinence periods.
(20) Alterations in ERP components, when they did occur, occurred under the acute influence of ethanol, as well as in abstinent chronic alcoholics.
Chastity
Definition:
(n.) The state of being chaste; purity of body; freedom from unlawful sexual intercourse.
(n.) Moral purity.
(n.) The unmarried life; celibacy.
(n.) Chasteness.
Example Sentences:
(1) They are those who have chosen a following of Jesus that imitates his life in obedience to the Father, poverty, community life and chastity.
(2) The organisation has been a persistent and virulent opponent of abortion rights and LGBT legal rights; it actively opposed safer sex campaigns at the height of the Aids crisis, advocating chastity as an alternative.
(3) Diana is a burrnesha , one of Albania's last sworn virgins , women who opted to live as men to escape the domination of a patriarchal system, at the cost of taking a vow of virginity and chastity.
(4) 5 The Ring Writer Trey Parker forays into teen chastity; it weaves in a foul-mouthed, sadistic Mickey Mouse.
(5) They take vows of poverty and chastity, but they are not ordained, which is why they have no power," said Kenneth Briggs, author of Double Crossed: Uncovering the Catholic Church's Betrayal of American Nuns .
(6) Clean break England's new skipper's line on chastity: 2007 – Rio denies organising the £4k-per-head Man United Christmas party, which was set up, a club insider told the press, "for players only: strictly no wives or girlfriends.
(7) The area also placed a heavy emphasis on female chastity, said Ye Ziling, who has interviewed many survivors , possibly helping to ensure the women's vows were respected.
(8) Canine chastity belt In 1903, German Baroness Margarethe Johanne Christianne Marie von Heyden and her husband, anxious to maintain the purity of the pedigree of their dogs, designed a device to prevent "coition in the case of bitches and other female animals more particularly for the purpose of preventing cross-breeding".
(9) Child marriage is a tradition that is practised to preserve a girl's chastity, to strengthen ties between families and as a response to poverty.
(10) Members of religious orders take vows of poverty, chastity and obedience.
(11) The promise of marriage could be undone without dishonour by taking a vow of chastity.
(12) On the vow of chastity Religious men and women are prophets.
(13) In 2004, in the city of Neka, a 16-year-old girl, Atefah Rajabi Sahaaleh, who had been raped several times, was convicted and executed for "crimes against chastity" and "adultery".
(14) Commentators on Twitter suggested that the mayor’s next move would be to issue chastity belts or burqas.
(15) In a recent issue of Isis’s English language magazine, Dabiq , an article condemns the supposed perversion of the western way of life, stating that it has destroyed modesty and chastity, causing women to abandon motherhood, wifehood, femininity, and heterosexuality.
(16) And there is just as surely something psychological at the bottom of Polanski's fear of female privacy, his apparent inability to distinguish between a belt and a chastity belt.
(17) Others blame ineffectual laws, lax policing, India’s deep seated patriarchal system and outmoded religious beliefs that place the burden of chastity squarely on women’s shoulders.
(18) I was going to wear a chastity belt today as a symbol of sexual slavery but I don't want to use a gimmicky prop to represent a serious act of oppression against the female population of this island.
(19) 21.5% were aware of the implications of the Adolescent Family Life Act designed to promote premarital chastity.
(20) For her family, who believed like many Egyptians that the mutilation would safeguard her chastity, the day was cause for celebration.