Definition of Refrainer

1. n. One who refrains.

Definition of Refrainer

1. Noun. One who refrains. ¹

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Definition of Refrainer

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Refrainer

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refractory period of electronic pacemaker
refractory pot
refractory rhyme
refractory rickets
refractory state
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Literary usage of Refrainer

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Mapleton: Or, More Work for the Maine Law by Pharcellus Church (1853)
"... pretended refrainer from worldly amusements in her own city, but mad after them in Paris, or when abroad; a professed martyr to her husband's impiety, ..."

2. Enterprise and the Productive Process: A Theory of Economic Productivity by Frederick Barnard Hawley (1907)
"The circumstance that the abstainer or refrainer as such is necessarily a different person from the retainer as such, and exercises a different function, ..."

3. Enterprise and the Productive Process: A Theory of Economic Productivity by Frederick Barnard Hawley (1907)
"The refrainer is certainly entitled to all the pure interest he obtains. The enterpriser likewise is entitled to a profit equal not only to his own ..."

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