refraining
21avoidance — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Refraining from Nouns 1. (act of avoiding) avoidance, evasion, default, circumvention, elusion, dodge, sidestep; abstinence, forbearance, refraining (See asceticism); departure; escape, flight; truancy,… …
22Yom Kippur — Day of Atonement redirects here. For other uses, see Day of Atonement (disambiguation). For the war, see Yom Kippur War. Yom Kippur Jews Praying in the Synagogue on Yom Kippur, by Maurycy Gottlieb (1878) …
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24Overeaters Anonymous — Not to be confused with Food Addicts Anonymous. Overeaters Anonymous (OA) is a twelve step program for people with problems related to food including, but not limited to, compulsive overeaters, those with binge eating disorder, bulimics and… …
25abstinence — This word (from the Latin abstinere, meaning to withhold ) refers to a voluntary refraining from, or giving up, specific activities for the sake of spiritual self discipline. Examples of abstinence include the practice of not eating meat on… …
26Moral equivalence — is a term used in political debate, usually to criticize any denial that a moral hierarchy can be assessed of two sides in a conflict, or in the actions or tactics of two sides. The term originates from a 1906 address by William James entitled… …
27Fasting — is primarily the act of willingly abstaining from some or all food, drink, or both, for a period of time. An absolute fast is normally defined as abstinence from all food and liquid for a defined period, usually a single day (24 hours), or… …
28Chinese nobility — Chinese sovereignty and peerage,[1] the nobility of China, were an important feature of traditional social and political organization of Imperial China. While the concepts of hereditary sovereign and peerage titles and noble families were… …
29Parole — For other uses, see Parole (disambiguation). Criminal procedure …
30Seven virtues — In the Catholic catechism, the seven virtues refer to the combination of two lists of virtues, the 4 cardinal virtues of prudence, justice, restraint or temperance, and courage or fortitude, (from ancient greek philosophy) and the 3 theological… …
