Look up: abstention

1. Abstention
   Ab·sten'tion adjective [ French See Abstain .] The act of abstaining; a holding aloof. Jer. Taylor.
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2. Abstention
   • (a.) The act of abstaining; a holding aloof.
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3. abstention
   abstention Abstaining; voluntarily doing without something.
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4. Abstention
   `Abstention` is a term in election procedure for when a participant in a vote either does not go to vote (on election day) or, in parliamentary procedure, is present during the vote, but does not cast a ballot. Abstention must be contrasted with "blank vote", in which a voter casts a ballo...
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