Meanings of enforce abstinence in English

Surgery is not a substitute for abstinence; it is to enforce abstinence.

But Luke did not fear botulism, gender confusion, or the challenge of state- enforced abstinence.

When he began to eat ravenously after his enforced abstinence, hearty foods and heavy drinks were supplied.

The draught of nectar tasted in the former act after a period of enforced abstinence has produced a deadly reaction.

An enforced abstinence of some months was succeeded by a debauch, in which he drank an immense quantity of brandy.

They are connected with a torpid liver and aggravated by confinement to a sedentary life and enforced abstinence from angling.

Anxiety on account of money, so prevalent all through these latter years, was increased by his enforced abstinence from work.

The cat, thus condemned to enforced abstinence, meandered about the house for a day and a half in a disconsolate, quarrelsome mood.

As he was a real, live human and not a temperance tract hero, there were times when he girded bitterly at his self- enforced abstinence.

But I looked with longing glances upon all printed matter and, as my curiosity was continually piqued, this enforced abstinence grew to be well-nigh intolerable.