What is "fastings"

Usage examples of "fastings".

And so they lived in their prayers, and fastings, and great abstinence.

For when they saw Sir Launcelot endure such penance, in prayers, and fastings, they took no force what pain they endured, for to see the noblest knight of the world take such abstinence that he waxed full lean.

The hand fastings we'll have at Lughnassadh, after the First Harvest, you certainly don't have to be Initiates for that and we'll be able to afford decent feasts then, and the Initiations we'll have at Yule, at the turning of the year.

Initiations, hand fastings, square dancing, bobbing for bloody apples.

His fastings are the wonder of anybody who has ever asked him to a meal.

Agreeing in some points of his history, they all celebrate his life of penitence, his mortifications, his fastings, his functions of mediator and expiator, the enmity between him and another god, his adversary, their battles, and his ascendency.