abstention
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- n the trait of abstaining (especially from alcohol)
- For Orthodox Jews Yom Kippur, the last 24 hours of the ten-day observance, was a Day of Atonement, the only one of the year on which Mosaic law prescribes abstention from food .
- But an abstention rate of 44% suggests some of Chavez's traditional support base didn't show up to vote.
- After decades of relative abstention, Colson is back in power politics.