abstinence of war

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈæbstɪnɪns əv ˈwɔɹ/

abstinence of war (plural abstinences of war)

1. (archaic) A truce.

• Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abstinence of war”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 10.