Meaning of MODERATION
| Pronunciation: | | `mâdu'reyshun
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- [n] the action of lessening in severity or intensity; "the object being control or moderation of economic depressions"
- [n] the trait of avoiding excesses
- [n] quality of being moderate and avoiding extremes
- [n] a change for the better
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| | Synonyms: | | easing, moderateness, relief, temperance |
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| | Antonyms: | | immoderateness, immoderation, intemperance | | |
| | See Also: | | abatement, abstemiousness, alteration, breath of fresh air, change, control, decrease, degree, diminution, disembarrassment, golden mean, grade, level, modification, natural virtue, reasonableness, reduction, restraint, sobriety, step-down | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Mod`er*a"tion\, n. [L. moderatio: cf. F.
mod['e]ration.]
1. The act of moderating, or of imposing due restraint.
2. The state or quality of being mmoderate.
In moderation placing all my glory, While Tories
call me Whig, and Whigs a Tory. --Pope.
3. Calmness of mind; equanimity; as, to bear adversity with
moderation.
The calm and judicious moderation of Orange.
--Motley.
4. pl. The first public examinations for degrees at the
University of Oxford; -- usually contracted to {mods}.
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| | Related Terms: | | abnegation, boundary, bounds, center, compromise, confinement, constraint, continence, denial, discipline, fence, forbearance, frugality, golden mean, gravity, half measures, half-and-half measures, halfway measures, happy medium, limit, limitation, mean, measure, medium, middle course, middle ground, middle way, moderateness, neutral ground, nothing in excess, prescription, proscription, qualification, renouncement, renunciation, restrain, restraint, restriction, sedateness, self-control, self-denial, self-discipline, self-mastery, self-restraint, seriousness, sober-mindedness, soberness, sobersidedness, sobersides, sobriety, solemnity, sophrosyne, staidness, temperance, temperateness, via media |
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