Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of refraining; abstinence; forbearance.
Wiktionary
- n. The act of refraining.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. rare Act of refraining.
Etymologies
- refrain + -ment (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The story in it is played out by due degrees, and there may be just as much deliberation, refrainment, suspension, as in a story told scenically upon the stage.”
“-- Perhaps even that would not have intrigued her essentially barbaric interest as much as it did had it not been for his amazing attitude of, well, let's say, "refrainment.”
The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story
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