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Webster 1828 Edition

Refraining

REFRA'INING

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ppr.

Holding back; forbearing.

Definition 2024

refraining

refraining

English

Verb

refraining

present participle of refrain

Noun

refraining ‎(plural refrainings)

The act of one who refrains from doing something.
- 2005, Daniel J. Hill, Divinity and Maximal Greatness (page 220)
  Their refrainings from evil are members of at least one active causal chain […]