(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Refrain.

Encratism Friday Lenten fare Pythagoreanism Pythagorism Rechabitism Shakerism Spartan fare Stoicism abstainment abstemiousness abstention abstinence asceticism avoidance avoiding reaction banyan day celibacy chastity circumvention continence defense mechanism dodge duck elusion elusiveness equivocation escape eschewal evasion evasive action evasiveness fast fish day forbearance forestalling forestallment fruitarianism getting around gymnosophy jink nephalism neutrality nonintervention noninvolvement plain living prevention refrainment sexual abstinence shunning shunting off shy sidestep sidetracking simple diet slip spare diet teetotalism the pledge the runaround total abstinence vegetarianism zigzag