temperance
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- noun
- /ˈtɛmpərəns/
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moderación
- The speaker emphasized the importance of temperance in lifestyle choices to maintain overall well-being.
So in that case, assuming you're you're, you're, you know, temperance for fairness, would you revoke?
- So in that case, assuming you're you're, you're, you know, temperance for fairness, would you revoke?
Examples
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The community promoted temperance to help reduce alcohol dependence and improve public health.
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In Thinking About Crime (1983), James Q. Wilson estimates that by the end of the nineteenth century, the temperance movement had reduced per capita alcohol consumption by two-thirds.
Academic text (1993) -
He called attention to "the scandalous scarcity" of potable water in the tenements, and he hoped to improve the diet of the poor (in part by encouraging schools to teach cooking, "the only kind of temperance preaching that counts for anything").
Academic text (1991) -
Her temperance in spending allowed her to save enough money for a new car.
Synonyms
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Keeping actions or feelings within reasonable limits
Choosing not to enjoy pleasures or luxuries to control yourself
A habit of eating and drinking only small amounts to avoid excess
Antonyms
How Balanced
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Temperance comes from the same Latin temperare, meaning 'to keep in balance', and it shares the root with temper, which metalworkers use when they heat and cool metal to get the right strength. That's why temperance can also mean the careful act of balancing or moderating something to reach the desired condition.