Spinster vs Abstinent - What's the difference?
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A woman who has never been married, especially one past the typical marrying age according to social traditions.
* Coke
One who spins (puts a spin on) a political media story so as to give something a favorable or advantageous appearance; a spin doctor, spin merchant or spin master.
(obsolete) Someone whose occupation was spinning thread.
* ~1601 , William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night , act II, scene IV:
(obsolete) A woman of evil life and character; so called from being forced to spin in a house of correction.
(rare) A spider; an insect (such as a silkworm) which spins thread.
(Webster 1913)
Refraining from indulgence, especially from the indulgence of appetite; abstemious; continent; temperate.
One who abstains; a faster.
(usually, capitalized, religion, historical) One of a sect who appeared in France and Spain in the 3rd century, and believed in abstinence towards meat and sex.
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Spinster is a related term of abstinent.
As nouns the difference between spinster and abstinent
is that spinster is a woman who has never been married, especially one past the typical marrying age according to social traditions while abstinent is (usually|capitalized|religion|historical) one of a sect who appeared in france and spain in the 3rd century, and believed in abstinence towards meat and sex.spinster
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(wikipedia spinster)Noun
(en noun)- If a gentlewoman be termed a spinster , she may abate the writ.
- The spinsters and the knitters in the sun.
Synonyms
* old maidSee also
* bachelor * widow * divorcee ----abstinent
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Etymology 1
* First attested in the late 14th century. From (etyl), from (etyl) abstinent, from (etyl) . * See abstainAdjective
(en adjective)- (Beaumont and Fletcher)
