Vocabulary : Abstentious to Abstinent

Abstentious : Characterized by abstinence; self-restraining.
Absterge : To make clean by wiping; to wipe away; to cleanse; hence, to purge.
Abstergent : Serving to cleanse, detergent. ;; A substance used in cleansing; a detergent; as, soap is an abstergent.
Absterse : To absterge; to cleanse; to purge away.
Abstersion : Act of wiping clean; a cleansing; a purging.

Abstersive : Cleansing; purging. ;; Something cleansing.
Abstersiveness : The quality of being abstersive.
Abstinence : The act or practice of abstaining; voluntary forbearance of any action, especially the refraining from an indulgence of appetite, or from customary gratifications of animal or sensual propensities. Specifically, the practice of abstaining from intoxicating beverages, -- called also total abstinence. ;; The practice of self-denial by depriving one's self of certain kinds of food or drink, especially of meat.
Abstinency : Abstinence.
Abstinent : Refraining from indulgence, especially from the indulgence of appetite; abstemious; continent; temperate. ;; One who abstains. ;; One of a sect who appeared in France and Spain in the 3d century.

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