abstinence (n.)
- abnegation
- abstemiousness
- abstention
- asceticism
- austerity
- avoidance
- calm
- calmness
- celibacy
- chastity
- conservatism
- constraint
- continence
- continency
- control
- cool
- desuetude
- dispassion
- disuse
- eremitism
- evenness
- fast
- fasting
- flagellation
- gentleness
- gymnosophy
- impartiality
- intactness
- judiciousness
- lenity
- maceration
- maidenhead
- maidenhood
- mildness
- moderateness
- moderation
- moderationism
- monasticism
- mortification
- neutrality
- nonviolence
- obsolescence
- obsoleteness
- pacifism
- prudence
- puritanism
- renunciation
- repose
- restraint
- retirement
- rigor
- self-abnegation
- self-control
- self-denial
- self-mortification
- self-restraint
- serenity
- sobriety
- stability
- starvation
- steadiness
- superannuation
- teetotalism
- temperance
- temperateness
- tranquillity
- vegetarianism
- virginity
Refrain to-night,
And that shall lend a kind of easiness
To the next abstinence: the next more easy;
For use almost can change the stamp of nature.
Abstinence is as easy to me as temperance would be difficult.
