Meanings of abstain altogether in English

Objection 1: It seems to be lawful to abstain altogether from Communion.

Maybe I would have decided to abstain altogether.

Fast; drink water only; abstain altogether from desire, that thou mayest hereafter conform thy desire to Reason.

One should, therefore, always achieve acts that are righteous and abstain altogether from those that are unrighteous.

Lord, ought to abstain altogether from all wickedness, and more and more to be the servant of righteousness.

For my kind of work, I have found it absolutely necessary to abstain altogether from the use of both alcohol and tobacco.

It would be a good thing for an old man like him to abstain altogether from meat, from superfluities of all sorts.

Darling exacted from Clare the promise, already referred to, that he would observe the strictest moderation in drinking, and if possible abstain altogether.

In regard to physical intoxication, it is a great deal easier to abstain altogether than to take a very little and then stop.

He was strictly advised to abstain altogether from political business, but he might as well have attempted to abstain from food and drink.

Completely worn out with her sleepless nights, she determined to take a little rest, and to abstain altogether for a few nights from the search.

But some will say, if your brother offends by his intemperate habits, you should abstain altogether, that you may become a good example to him.

Ponta's Social Democrats and their junior allies in parliament abstained altogether.

He sometimes eats excessively and sometimes abstains altogether from food.

My botanist, who abstains altogether, is of another opinion.

Whether It Is Lawful to Abstain Altogether from Communion?