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refrainment
verb
(re-frain)
curb, restrain
refrainment
verb
(re-frain)
to keep oneself from doing, feeling, or indulging in something and especially from following a passing impulse
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abstention
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decline
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failure
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omission
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reluctance
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retreat
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unwillingness
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withholding
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renitence
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reluctation
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reticence
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disapproval
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displacency
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aversion
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recalcitrate
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vote down
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refusal
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displeasance
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displicence
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hesitancy
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hesitance
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recusation
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unpersuasion
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disinterest
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rejection
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wariness
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indifference
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aposiopesis
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abrenunciation
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rejectment
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hesitation
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apagoge
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accismus
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acquiescence
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indetermination
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disaffirmation
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distaste
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nolition
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vote of confidence
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nonconcur
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disinclination
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displeasure
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mistrustless
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evitation
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assentient
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dubitation
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antipathy
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renitent
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diffidence
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dissatisfaction
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loathful
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obstination
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inaction
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impatience
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objicient
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atychiphobia
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conspiracy of silence
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timidity
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apathy
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cautel
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dispathy
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objection
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run afoul
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outscorn
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nonacquiescence
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distrust
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distrustfulness
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counterirritation
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assentation
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abience
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dissympathy
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discouragement
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abnegative
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animose
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enantiosis
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warefulness
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ambivalence
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cunctation
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indifferency
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in absentia
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dysbulia
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sdeign
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nonparticipation
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holy mother
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insistence
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assenter
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kakorrhaphiophobia
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pococurantism
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obluctation
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disdain
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improbation
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go against
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inexertion
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irremission
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apathist
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passivity
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inflexibleness
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mistrust
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wall of silence
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nephalism
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refrainment
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