- Look up
abstention in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Abstention is
refusing to vote in an
election or in a
parliamentary vote.
Abstention may also refer...
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Teetotalism is the
practice of
voluntarily abstaining from the
consumption of alcohol,
specifically in
alcoholic drinks. A
person who
practices (and possibly...
- be
considered a
spoilt vote,
depending on each legislation,
while an
abstaining voter has not voted. Both
forms (abstention and
blank vote) may or may...
- Féin Policy",
formulated between 1905 and 1907,
called for
Irish MPs to
abstain from
Westminster and sit in a
parallel parliament in Dublin. The first...
- Kippur, the Day of Atonement. In
Western Christianity,
Roman Catholics abstain from meat on Ash
Wednesday and on
Fridays except solemnities.
During the...
- game,
where players have the
option to "reject the deal", that is, to
abstain from
playing the game. This type of game can be used as a
model for a number...
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charitable acts for
abstinence from meat on
Fridays except Good Friday.
Others abstain from
eating meat on
Lenten Fridays. The
Personal Ordinariates for former...
- is a
Christian practice of
variously (depending on the denomination)
abstaining from meat,
dairy products and alcohol, on Fridays, or
holding a fast on...
-
cultural groups continued to
place a
value on the
moral purity of an
abstainer, but
abstinence was
caught up in a
wider reevaluation of
moral values...
- Lent.
During the
liturgical season of Lent,
believers have
historically abstained from rich
foods such as meat, eggs,
lacticinia (dairy products), and alcohol—a...
