Definition of temperance

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

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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..
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..
Debilitate :: Debilitate (v. t.) To impair the strength of; to weaken; to enfeeble; as, to debilitate the body by intemperance..
Crusade :: Crusade (n.) Any enterprise undertaken with zeal and enthusiasm; as, a crusade against intemperance..
Debauchedness :: Debauchedness (n.) The state of being debauched; intemperance.
Debauch :: Debauch (n.) Excess in eating or drinking; intemperance; drunkenness; lewdness; debauchery.
Debauchee :: Debauchee (v. t.) One who is given to intemperance or bacchanalian excesses; a man habitually lewd; a libertine.
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..
Temperance :: Temperance (v. t.) State with regard to heat or cold; temperature.
Crapulence :: Crapulence (n.) The sickness occasioned by intemperance; surfeit.
Mediocrity :: Mediocrity (n.) Moderation; temperance.
Growth :: Growth (n.) The process of growing; the gradual increase of an animal or a vegetable body; the development from a seed, germ, or root, to full size or maturity; increase in size, number, frequency, strength, etc.; augmentation; advancement; production; prevalence or influence; as, the growth of trade; the growth of power; the growth of intemperance. Idle weeds are fast in growth..
Attemperance :: Attemperance (n.) Temperance; attemperament.
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..
Temperateness :: Temperateness (n.) The quality or state of being temperate; moderateness; temperance.
Templar :: Templar (n.) One belonged to a certain order or degree among the Freemasons, called Knights Templars. Also, one of an order among temperance men, styled Good Templars..
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..
Debauchery :: Debauchery (n.) Excessive indulgence of the appetites; especially, excessive indulgence of lust; intemperance; sensuality; habitual lewdness..
Sobriety :: Sobriety (n.) Habitual soberness or temperance as to the use of spirituous liquors; as, a man of sobriety..
Temperance :: Temperance (v. t.) Moderation of passion; patience; calmness; sedateness.
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