intemperance
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9.1
- noun
- /ɪnˈtɛmpərəns/
- Formal
:
intemperancia
- But there's a streak of intemperance with money in the Fontclair family.
- such intemperance
Are, bear with me, lasciviousness, wantonness and intemperance.
- Are, bear with me, lasciviousness, wantonness and intemperance.
Examples
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Vice, alcohol, intemperance, and then more poverty and still worse, more filth.
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As he had in the campaign for Prohibition, Crafts at first led the fight in Washington against another form of intemperance, the use of drugs.
Academic text (2002) -
In addition, the vast social effect of intemperance on society took on added significance.
Academic text (2009) -
I will not tolerate intemperance of this sort.
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Businesses wanted literate workers, and there was the idea that education would reduce social ills like intemperance and crime.
Blog text (14) -
Pringle then spoke in favor of the bill, saying it was "a bill to prevent the evils of intemperance."
Academic text (2009) -
They too had troubled marriages and moments of intemperance; they respected the simple equation of hard work.
Fiction book (1990) -
Anti-liquor sentiment increasingly focused on the social causes of intemperance, such as the deplorable living conditions caused by industrialization and the vast power and pro-alcohol propaganda of the liquor industry.
Academic text (2009) -
Everyone was to respect private property, send their children to school, and give up whatever vices—particularly intemperance—that they might have brought with them from the old world in order to become hardworking and law-abiding.
Academic text (1991) -
His intemperance with alcohol led to serious health problems.
Synonyms
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6.8
Giving yourself too much pleasure or comfort
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6.1
Doing too much of something enjoyable, often food or treats, that causes harm
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8.6
Doing or having too much of something without control
Lack of self-control that makes someone overdo things like eating or drinking
A way of behaving that is too much
Not able to control strong desires, especially sexual ones
A lack of moral control that makes a person enjoy too many physical pleasures
Antonyms
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3.3
Being able to stop yourself from acting on strong feelings or wants when it is hard
How Intemperate
Surface Forms
Morphology
intemperance = temperance (semi-transparent) = in + temper + ance
Given the noun 'temperance', adding negative 'in-' straightforwardly yields the meaning 'lack of temperance'.
Etymology
Intemperance comes from the parts in- 'not' and temperance 'self-control'. So, intemperance means not having moderation or control, often about drinking or giving in to strong desires.