Word Meanings - INABSTINENCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Want of abstinence; indulgence. "The inabstinence of Eve." Milton.

Related words: (words related to INABSTINENCE)

• INDULGENCE
  Remission of the temporal punishment due to sins, after the guilt of sin has been remitted by sincere repentance; absolution from the censures and public penances of the church. It is a payment of the debt of justice to God by the application of
• INABSTINENCE
  Want of abstinence; indulgence. "The inabstinence of Eve." Milton.
• MILTONIAN
  Miltonic. Lowell.
• MILTONIC
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
• ABSTINENCE
  1. The act or practice of abstaining; voluntary forbearance of any action, especially the refraining from an indulgence of appetite, or from customary gratifications of animal or sensual propensities. Specifically, the practice of abstaining from
• HAMILTON PERIOD
  A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.
• SELF-INDULGENCE
  Indulgence of one's appetites, desires, or inclinations; -- the opposite of self-restraint, and self-denial.