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Definition of Sexual abstention

1. Noun. Abstaining from sexual relations (as because of religious vows).

Literary usage of Sexual abstention

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

1. Health and Longevity Through Rational Diet: Practical Hints in Regard to by Arnold Lorand (1913)
"Diet to be Used in sexual abstention. Some persons, by reason of their calling, ie, the Catholic monks and nuns who are bound by their vows, are obliged to ..."

2. Health and Disease in Relation to Marriage and the Married State by Hermann Senator, Siegfried Kaminer (1904)
"to their sexual abstention exclusively, and I can hardly remember a single case of a healthy individual in whom I could discover no other cause but ..."

3. Problems of Men, Mind, and Morals by Ernest Belfort Bax (1912)
"To require of a man, to whom circumstances have not granted this idyllic love, sexual abstention, is about as reasonable as to require him to stop breathing ..."

4. Reminiscences and Reflexions of a Mid and Late Victorian by Ernest Belfort Bax (1920)
"The circumference of morality still mainly circled round the question of sex relations : sexual abstention under the name of " Social Purity " bulked ..."

5. Christianity and Sex Problems by Hugh Northcote (1916)
"... seem to defeat its own purpose; that, eg, by exacting compliance with its demand for sexual abstention, it overtaxes the subject's powers of inhibition, ..."

6. Christianity and Sex Problems by Hugh Northcote (1916)
"... seem to defeat its own purpose; that, eg, by exacting compliance with its demand for sexual abstention, it overtaxes the subject's powers of inhibition, ..."

7. Health and Disease in Relation to Marriage and the Married State by Hermann Senator, Siegfried Kaminer (1905)
"In almost all the more pronounced inflammatory diseases of the genital apparatus, physical cautiousness, the avoidance of fatigue, sexual abstention, etc., ..."

8. Health and Longevity Through Rational Diet: Practical Hints in Regard to by Arnold Lorand (1913)
"Diet to be Used in sexual abstention. Some persons, by reason of their calling, ie, the Catholic monks and nuns who are bound by their vows, are obliged to ..."

9. Health and Disease in Relation to Marriage and the Married State by Hermann Senator, Siegfried Kaminer (1904)
"to their sexual abstention exclusively, and I can hardly remember a single case of a healthy individual in whom I could discover no other cause but ..."

10. Problems of Men, Mind, and Morals by Ernest Belfort Bax (1912)
"To require of a man, to whom circumstances have not granted this idyllic love, sexual abstention, is about as reasonable as to require him to stop breathing ..."

11. Reminiscences and Reflexions of a Mid and Late Victorian by Ernest Belfort Bax (1920)
"The circumference of morality still mainly circled round the question of sex relations : sexual abstention under the name of " Social Purity " bulked ..."

12. Christianity and Sex Problems by Hugh Northcote (1916)
"... seem to defeat its own purpose; that, eg, by exacting compliance with its demand for sexual abstention, it overtaxes the subject's powers of inhibition, ..."

13. Christianity and Sex Problems by Hugh Northcote (1916)
"... seem to defeat its own purpose; that, eg, by exacting compliance with its demand for sexual abstention, it overtaxes the subject's powers of inhibition, ..."

14. Health and Disease in Relation to Marriage and the Married State by Hermann Senator, Siegfried Kaminer (1905)
"In almost all the more pronounced inflammatory diseases of the genital apparatus, physical cautiousness, the avoidance of fatigue, sexual abstention, etc., ..."

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