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Temperance :: Temperance (v. t.) Moderation of passion; patience; calmness; sedateness.

Virtue :: Virtue (n.) A particular moral excellence; as, the virtue of temperance, of charity, etc..

Debauch :: Debauch (n.) Excess in eating or drinking; intemperance; drunkenness; lewdness; debauchery.

Mediocrity :: Mediocrity (n.) Moderation; temperance.

Vice :: Vice (n.) A moral fault or failing; especially, immoral conduct or habit, as in the indulgence of degrading appetites; customary deviation in a single respect, or in general, from a right standard, implying a defect of natural character, or the result of training and habits; a harmful custom; immorality; depravity; wickedness; as, a life of vice; the vice of intemperance..

Destructive :: Destructive (a.) Causing destruction; tending to bring about ruin, death, or devastation; ruinous; fatal; productive of serious evil; mischievous; pernicious; -- often with of or to; as, intemperance is destructive of health; evil examples are destructive to the morals of youth..

Temperancy :: Temperancy (n.) Temperance.

Apostle :: Apostle (n.) The missionary who first plants the Christian faith in any part of the world; also, one who initiates any great moral reform, or first advocates any important belief; one who has extraordinary success as a missionary or reformer; as, Dionysius of Corinth is called the apostle of France, John Eliot the apostle to the Indians, Theobald Mathew the apostle of temperance..

Temperance :: Temperance (v. t.) State with regard to heat or cold; temperature.

Attemperance :: Attemperance (n.) Temperance; attemperament.

Distemperance :: Distemperance (n.) Distemperature.

Intemperance :: Intemperance (n.) Specifically: Habitual or excessive indulgence in alcoholic liquors.

Crapulence :: Crapulence (n.) The sickness occasioned by intemperance; surfeit.

Sobriety :: Sobriety (n.) Habitual soberness or temperance as to the use of spirituous liquors; as, a man of sobriety..

Intemperance :: Intemperance (n.) 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..

Intemperancy :: Intemperancy (n.) Intemperance.

Temperate :: Temperate (v. t.) Proceeding from temperance.

Chaplain :: Chaplain (n.) Any person (clergyman or layman) chosen to conduct religious exercises for a society, etc.; as, a chaplain of a Masonic or a temperance lodge..

Debauch :: Debauch (n.) To lead away from purity or excellence; to corrupt in character or principles; to mar; to vitiate; to pollute; to seduce; as, to debauch one's self by intemperance; to debauch a woman; to debauch an army..

Crusade :: Crusade (n.) Any enterprise undertaken with zeal and enthusiasm; as, a crusade against intemperance..

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