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abstainments

abstainments is the plural of abstainment.

Meaning of abstainment

Noun

abstainment (plural abstainments)

  1. (rare) An act of abstaining; an abstention.
    • Criminality consists in the Intention; and the mere abstainment therefrom, through motives of hope or fear, is not Innocence; but Prudence […]1871, Edward Nichols Dennys, The alpha, or First principle of the human mind, page 227

Questions about abstainments

What is abstainments the plural of?
Abstainments is the plural of abstainment.

Words near abstainments in the dictionary

  1. abstainers
  2. abstainest
  3. abstaineth
  4. abstaining
  5. abstainment
  6. abstainments
  7. abstains
  8. abstand
  9. abstemious
  10. abstemiously
  11. abstemiousness

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