refraining

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English

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Verb

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refraining

  1. present participle and gerund of refrain

Noun

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refraining (plural refrainings)

  1. The act of one who refrains from doing something.
    • 2005, Daniel J. Hill, Divinity and Maximal Greatness, page 220:
      Their refrainings from evil are members of at least one active causal chain []