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Duty :: Duty (n.) That which a person is bound by moral obligation to do, or refrain from doing; that which one ought to do; service morally obligatory..

Refrain :: Refrain (v. i.) To keep one's self from action or interference; to hold aloof; to forbear; to abstain.

Refrainment :: Refrainment (n.) Act of refraining.

Hold :: Hold (n. i.) To restrain one's self; to refrain.

Reticence :: Reticence (n.) The quality or state of being reticent, or keeping silence; the state of holding one's tonque; refraining to speak of that which is suggested; uncommunicativeness..

Refraining :: Refraining (p. pr. & vb/ n.) of Refrai.

Burden :: Burden (n.) The verse repeated in a song, or the return of the theme at the end of each stanza; the chorus; refrain. Hence: That which is often repeated or which is dwelt upon; the main topic; as, the burden of a prayer..

Hide :: Hide (v. t.) To withhold from knowledge; to keep secret; to refrain from avowing or confessing.

Spare :: Spare (v. i.) To refrain from inflicting harm; to use mercy or forbearance.

Ballade :: Ballade (n.) A form of French versification, sometimes imitated in English, in which three or four rhymes recur through three stanzas of eight or ten lines each, the stanzas concluding with a refrain, and the whole poem with an envoy..

Continency :: Continency (n.) The restraint which a person imposes upon his desires and passions; the act or power of refraining from indulgence of the sexual appetite, esp. from unlawful indulgence; sometimes, moderation in sexual indulgence..

Undersong :: Undersong (n.) The burden of a song; the chorus; the refrain.

Responsory :: Responsory (n.) A versicle sung in answer to the priest, or as a refrain..

Faburden :: Faburden (n.) A monotonous refrain.

Refrained :: Refrained (imp. & p. p.) of Refrai.

Refrain :: Refrain (v.) The burden of a song; a phrase or verse which recurs at the end of each of the separate stanzas or divisions of a poetic composition.

Covenant :: Covenant (n.) An undertaking, on sufficient consideration, in writing and under seal, to do or to refrain from some act or thing; a contract; a stipulation; also, the document or writing containing the terms of agreement..

Pardon :: Pardon (v. t.) To refrain from exacting as a penalty.

Neutrality :: Neutrality (a.) The condition of a nation or government which refrains from taking part, directly or indirectly, in a war between other powers..

Disoblige :: Disoblige (v. t.) To do an act which contravenes the will or desires of; to offend by an act of unkindness or incivility; to displease; to refrain from obliging; to be unaccommodating to.

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