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Regard :: Regard (v. t.) To look upon, as in a certain relation; to hold as an popinion; to consider; as, to regard abstinence from wine as a duty; to regard another as a friend or enemy..

Rigor :: Rigor (n.) Severity of life; austerity; voluntary submission to pain, abstinence, or mortification..

Abstemiousness :: Abstemiousness (n.) The quality of being abstemious, temperate, or sparing in the use of food and strong drinks. It expresses a greater degree of abstinence than temperance..

Abstinently :: Abstinently (adv.) With abstinence.

Fast :: Fast (v. i.) To practice abstinence as a religious exercise or duty; to abstain from food voluntarily for a time, for the mortification of the body or appetites, or as a token of grief, or humiliation and penitence..

Fast :: Fast (v. i.) A time of fasting, whether a day, week, or longer time; a period of abstinence from food or certain kinds of food; as, an annual fast..

Fast :: Fast (v. i.) Abstinence from food; omission to take nourishment.

Essene :: Essene (n.) One of a sect among the Jews in the time of our Savior, remarkable for their strictness and abstinence..

Scrupulous :: Scrupulous (a.) Careful; cautious; exact; nice; as, scrupulous abstinence from labor; scrupulous performance of duties..

Teetotaler :: Teetotaler (n.) One pledged to entire abstinence from all intoxicating drinks.

Teetotalism :: Teetotalism (n.) The principle or practice of entire abstinence, esp. from intoxicating drinks..

Abstentious :: Abstentious (a.) Characterized by abstinence; self-restraining.

Washingtonian :: Washingtonian (a.) Designating, or pertaining to, a temperance society and movement started in Baltimore in 1840 on the principle of total abstinence..

Abstinence :: Abstinence (n.) The practice of self-denial by depriving one's self of certain kinds of food or drink, especially of meat..

Temperance :: Temperance (v. t.) Habitual moderation in regard to the indulgence of the natural appetites and passions; restrained or moderate indulgence; moderation; as, temperance in eating and drinking; temperance in the indulgence of joy or mirth; specifically, moderation, and sometimes abstinence, in respect to using intoxicating liquors..

Nephalism :: Nephalism (n.) Total abstinence from spirituous liquor.

Abstemious :: Abstemious (a.) Marked by, or spent in, abstinence; as, an abstemious life..

Vigil :: Vigil (v. i.) Abstinence from sleep, whether at a time when sleep is customary or not; the act of keeping awake, or the state of being awake, or the state of being awake; sleeplessness; wakefulness; watch..

Fast :: Fast (v. i.) Voluntary abstinence from food, for a space of time, as a spiritual discipline, or as a token of religious humiliation..

Abstinency :: Abstinency (n.) Abstinence.

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