refraining

refraining

English

Verb

refraining

1. present participle of refrain

Noun

refraining (plural refrainings)

1. The act of one who refrains from doing something.
   • 2005, Daniel J. Hill, Divinity and Maximal Greatness (page 220)

     Their refrainings from evil are members of at least one active causal chain […]