fasting

Speech parts

1. fasting - Noun

2. fasting - Verb

of Fast

Source: Webster's dictionary

FAST temperance flagellation siam empty diet starvation hungry abstinence starved penance starving asceticism sobriety abstention

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full consumption fat loaded dining lined

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ramadan diet dieting hunger strike

He is mistaken who thinks that the fast consists only in abstinence from food. True fasting is departing from evil. John Chrysostom

If fasting were all about food, then the cows would be holy. John of Damascus

Fasting of the body is food for the soul. John Chrysostom

He that lives on hope will die fasting. American Proverb

It's a fine sermon about fasting when the preacher just had lunch. Ecuadoran Proverb

It is easy for someone to talk about fasting when he has a full belly. Croatian Proverb