Meaning of INTEMPERANCE
| Pronunciation: | | in'tempuruns
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- [n] immoderate indulgence of bodily appetites
- [n] consumption of alcoholic drinks
- [n] the quality of being intemperate
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| | Synonyms: | | intemperateness, self-indulgence |
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| | Antonyms: | | moderation, temperance | | |
| | See Also: | | boozing, crapulence, dissipation, dissolution, drink, drinking, drunkenness, gluttony, jag, licentiousness, profligacy, unrestraint, vice | |
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| | Definition: | | \In*tem"per*ance\, n. [F. intemp['e]rance, L.
intemperantia. See {In-} not, and {Temperance}.]
1. The act of becoming, or state of being, intemperate;
excess in any kind of action or indulgence; any immoderate
indulgence of the appetites or passions.
God is in every creature; be cruel toward none,
neither abuse any by intemperance. --Jer. Taylor.
Some, as thou sawest, by violent stroke shall die,
By fire, flood, famine, by intemperance more In
meats and drinks. --Milton.
2. Specifically: Habitual or excessive indulgence in
alcoholic liquors.
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| | Related Terms: | | abandon, abandonment, bacchanalianism, Bacchus, bibaciousness, bibacity, bibulosity, bibulousness, boundlessness, carpe diem, conspicuous consumption, crapulence, crapulency, crapulousness, debauchery, Dionysus, dissipation, drunkenness, edacity, egregiousness, enormousness, exaggeration, excess, excessiveness, exorbitance, exorbitancy, extravagance, extravagancy, extreme, extremes, extremism, extremity, fabulousness, giantism, gigantism, gluttonousness, gluttony, greed, greediness, gulosity, hoggishness, hyperbole, hyperphagia, hypertrophy, immoderacy, immoderateness, immoderation, incontinence, indiscipline, inordinacy, inordinance, inordinateness, insatiability, insobriety, intemperateness, irrepressibility, lavishness, laxness, leaking purse, licentiousness, loose purse strings, monstrousness, nimiety, noncoercion, nonintimidation, omnivorousness, outrageousness, overdevelopment, overeating, overgenerosity, overgenerousness, overgreatness, overgrowth, overindulgence, overlargeness, overliberality, overmuch, overmuchness, permissiveness, piggishness, polyphagia, pound-foolishness, prodigality, profligacy, profuseness, profusion, radicalism, rapacity, ravenousness, reckless expenditure, reckless spending, riotousness, serious drinking, sottishness, squandering, squandermania, swinish gluttony, swinishness, too much, too-muchness, unconscionableness, unconstraint, uncontinence, uncontrol, undueness, uninhibitedness, unreasonableness, unreserve, unrestrainedness, unrestraint, unruliness, unstrictness, voraciousness, voracity, wantonness, waste, wastefulness, wildness |
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