Definition of "fastings" [fastings]

• Plural form of fasting. (noun)

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• "Paul was in fastings often, and so he kept under this body, and brought it into subjection."
• "Besides all this, to provide diligently that there be public prayers and supplications made in time of necessity, together with fastings, that is, a holy abstinency, and most carefully to look to those things which belong to the tranquillity, peace, and safety of the Church."
• "Hence the Apostle (2 Cor. 6: 5, 7) reckons "fastings" together with the "armor of justice.""