- 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...
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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...
- 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...
- Kippur, the Day of Atonement. In
Western Christianity,
Roman Catholics abstain from meat on Ash
Wednesday and on
Fridays except solemnities.
During the...
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United States, and it is not used
outside the US. It
included a vow to "
abstain from
whatever is
deleterious and mischievous" and to "zealously s**** to...
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Fatma Ulviye Sultan (Ottoman Turkish: فاطمه علویه سلطان, "one who
abstain" and "exalted, lofty"; 11
September 1892 – 25
January 1967) was an
Ottoman princess...
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depicts Matt ****van, a San
Francisco web
designer who has
chosen to
abstain from any ****ual
contact for the
duration of Lent. Matt ****van
lives in...
