Definition of "refrainment" [re•frain•ment]

• The act of refraining. (noun)

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• "The story in it is played out by due degrees, and there may be just as much deliberation, refrainment, suspension, as in a story told scenically upon the stage."
• "-- Perhaps even that would not have intrigued her essentially barbaric interest as much as it did had it not been for his amazing attitude of, well, let's say, "refrainment.""