noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
total
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I knew of no virtues except truthfulness, obedience, self-sacrifice, total abstinence from alcoholic drinks ....
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If not, client and therapist can then together consider a goal of total abstinence .
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As a public man and staunch Congregationalist he was active in social reform, notably in promoting total abstinence .
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Compliance with any of the three drug treatments was associated with total abstinence during the year.
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His campaigns for total abstinence were based on appeals to reason.
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At sixteen Malins took the total abstinence pledge.
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As for the member of Alcoholics Anonymous, there could be no compromise solution: it was either total abstinence or total relapse.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I had planned to usher in the new decade with a month of abstinence .
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I should know by now that heavy drinkers are awfully fond of high-flown rationalisations for any brief spell of abstinence .
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In the early stages of abstinence , people are having a lot of difficulties and craving is most pronounced.
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Paul permits temporary abstinence also but only by mutual agreement.
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Some creatures indulge but once a year, with long periods of abstinence as they make copies of themselves.
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The primary goal of the treatment was abstinence .
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The third floor was a no-smoking floor or I think I might have started smoking again after six years' abstinence .
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Total abstinence from any sweeteners can cure a sweet tooth permanently - which is much better in the long term.