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O/W
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Noun
en Scientology en overt/withhold.
en 1986 Stewart Lamont Religion Inc. Religion Inc.: The Church of Scientology 0245543341 100 WENDELL REYNOLDS then mounted the rostrum and made the audience there and then write down all their O/Ws (overts and withholds, or sins to use religious terminology).
en 6 December 1998 Richard Lei The Life & Death of a Scientologist https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1998/12/06/the-life-death-of-a-scientologist/15668e42-c2c3-478b-835a-c0246dfa6436/ w:The Washington Post In confessional rituals, a parishioner must declare his O/Ws -- "overts and withholds" -- immoral acts that include harmful, undisclosed transgressions against Scientology. https://web.archive.org/web/20230507031833/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1998/12/06/the-life-death-of-a-scientologist/15668e42-c2c3-478b-835a-c0246dfa6436/ 7 May 2023
en 2017 Donald A. Westbrook Researching Scientology and Scientologists in the United States: Methods and Conclusions James R. Lewis (scholar) James R. Lewis; Kjersti Hellesøy Handbook of Scientology 9789004328716 24, note 5 https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=_dfzDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA24 These courses were introductions, respectively, to O/W (Overt/Withhold) Write-Ups, and cycles of action (start, change, stop).
en 2022 w:Mike Rinder A Billion Years: My Escape from a Life in the Highest Ranks of Scientology 9781982185763 10 https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=5kqMEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA10 The nature of the O/W was not really important at that time, only that I felt guilt.
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