Teetotalling vs Abstinence - What's the difference?
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Teetotal.
* 1958 : Vance Nye Bourjaily, The Violated: A Novel
* 1988 : Arnold M. Ludwig, Understanding the Alcoholic's Mind: Refocusing the Past
* 1976 : Sheldon M. Novick, The Electric War: The Fight Over Nuclear Power
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.
As an adjective teetotalling
is teetotal.As a noun abstinence is
the act or practice of abstaining, refraining from indulging a desire or appetite .teetotalling
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Alternative forms
* teetotalingAdjective
(-)- Most were some variation of the girl-whistling, boyish, movie kind, but a few were serious, teetotalling and religious.
- Their teetotalling , absolutist frame of mind, along with its associated attitudes, simply closed off the option to drink .
- Insull was English, from an earnest, teetotalling family of modest means. He had learned shorthand and was advancing nicely in a London firm of auctioneers ...
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. —