Abstention is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.
You can make 679 anagrams from letters in abstention (abeinnostt).
1515-25; Late Latin abstentiōn- (stem of abstentiō), equivalent to Latin abstent(us), past participle of abstinēre to abstain + -iōn- -ion
Why should we try to make it appear that abstention from lying is a virtue?
A second diplomat told the Daily Beast that a Chinese abstention may be "inevitable."
Political liberty, however, has not only a meaning of abstention, but a meaning of participation.
In this circumstance, an abstention was unfavorable to Israel.
Their abstention was not noticed by their fellows in the excitement of the time.
Then your whole service has been abstention from positive treachery for your own ends?
Israel's ambassador to Germany, Yakov Hadas-Handelsmann, expressed his surprise about Germany's U.N. abstention.
Coined the 'Janopause' by the Daily Mail, it requires just one month of abstention.
The week's end found him a little further in debt, in spite of abstention.
The total number of voters in Venezuela is 18 million, and 25 percent abstention is expected.
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