abstinency
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From abstinence + -y.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]abstinency (countable and uncountable, plural abstinencies)
- (rare) Alternative form of abstinence [First attested in the late 16th century.][1]
References
[edit]- ^ Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abstinency”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 10.