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Definition of Refrainment
1. n. Act of refraining.
Definition of Refrainment
1. Noun. The act of refraining. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Refrainment
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Refrainment
Literary usage of Refrainment
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Connoisseur by George Colman, B. Thornton (1904)
"COFFEE-POT painted by their best artist, for it is an artistic effort, not the
less so because of the refrainment from realism. Whoever the artist was, ..."
2. The Best Short Stories of ... and the Yearbook of the American Short Story edited by Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien (1922)
"... amazing attitude of, well, let's say, " refrainment." His almost absurdly
fastidious concern for what the West would call " the sanctity of her person. ..."
3. English Synonymes Explained in Alphabetical Order with Copious Illustrations by George Crabb (1904)
"... on the other hand, bespeaks no depression, but simply steadiness of action,
and a refrainment from all that is jocular. A man may be grave in his walk, ..."
4. The Foreign Relations of China: A History and a Survey by Mingchien Joshua Bau (1921)
"China suggested a simultaneous withdrawal of troops and a mutual refrainment from
any interference in the internal administration of Korea, to which Japan ..."
5. The Ecclesiastical History of New England: Comprising Not Only the Religious by Joseph Barlow Felt (1862)
"The same author mentions one Perrot, who, unable to overcome the superior influence
of Fox in England, so as to propagate the refrainment from shaving the ..."
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