Abstinence vs False - What's the difference?
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The act or practice of abstaining, refraining from indulging a desire or appetite.
# Specifically, the practice of abstaining from intoxicating/alcoholic beverages; total abstinence; teetotalism).
# Specifically, the practice of abstaining from sexual intercourse, either permanently or until marriage.
# (ecclesiastical) Abstention from certain foods on days of penitential observance.
The practice of self-denial; self-restraint; forebearance from anything.
(obsolete) Self-denial; abstaining; or forebearance of anything.
(business) Delay of spending to accrue capital.
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Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
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Spurious, artificial.
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*:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
(lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
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Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:whose false foundation waves have swept away
Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
(lb) Out of tune.
As a noun abstinence
is the act or practice of abstaining, refraining from indulging a desire or appetite .As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.abstinence
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(wikipedia abstinence)Alternative forms
* abstinencyNoun
(-)- Penance, fasts, and abstinence , / To punish bodies for the soul's offense. -
- The abstinence from a present pleasure that offers itself is a pain, nay, oftentimes, a very great one. —
- Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation. —
See also
* abstention * continence * asexualReferences
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Adjective
(er)A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society, section=Part 1, publisher=Clarendon Press, location=Oxford, editor= , volume=1, page=217 , passage=Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.}}
