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abstinence
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abstinence: see fasting fasting, partial or temporary abstinence from food, a widely used form of asceticism . Among the stricter Jews the principal fast is the Day of Atonement, or Yom Kippur ; in Islam the faithful fast all the daytime hours of the month of Ramadan .
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; temperance movements temperance movements, organized efforts to induce people to abstain—partially or completely—from alcoholic beverages. Such movements occurred in ancient times, but ceased until the wide use of distilled liquors in the modern period resulted in increasing
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