Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of refraining; abstinence; forbearance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Act of refraining.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of
refraining .
Etymologies
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refrain + -ment
Examples
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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.
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-- 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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