Specifically, the practice of abstaining from intoxicating/alcoholic beverages; total abstinence; teetotalism).

plural of abstinence

(rare) Alternative form of abstinence

With abstinence.

Refraining from indulgence, especially from the indulgence of appetite.

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 from meat and sex.

plural of abstinent

plural of Abstinent

(religion, historical) One of a religious sect that appeared in France and Spain in the 3rd century, and practised abstinence from meat and sex.

plural of abstinency