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Webster 1913 Edition
Abstinency
Ab′sti-nen-cy
,Noun.
Abstinence.
[R.]
Definition 2024
abstinency
abstinency
English
Noun
abstinency (uncountable)
- (rare) Alternative form of abstinence[First attested in the late 16th century.][1]
References
- ↑ Lesley Brown (editor), The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th edition (Oxford University Press, 2003 [1933], ISBN 978-0-19-860575-7), page 10