English edit

Verb edit

refraining

  1. present participle and gerund of refrain

Noun edit

refraining (plural refrainings)

  1. The act of one who refrains from doing something.
    • 2005, Daniel J. Hill, Divinity and Maximal Greatness, page 220:
      Their refrainings from evil are members of at least one active causal chain []