fasting
See also: fästing
English
Noun
fasting (countable and uncountable, plural fastings)
- abstinence from food
- H. G. Wells, The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth
- Immediately after that affair Lady Wondershoot, casting about for exemplary additions to the abuse and fastings she had inflicted, issued a Ukase. She issued it first to her butler, and very suddenly, so that she made him jump.
- H. G. Wells, The Food of the Gods and How It Came to Earth
Translations
act or practice of abstaining from or eating very little food
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period of time when one abstains from or eats very little food
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