Definition of temperance

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

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Temperance :: Temperance (v. t.) Moderation of passion; patience; calmness; sedateness.
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..
Temperateness :: Temperateness (n.) The quality or state of being temperate; moderateness; 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..
Acrasy :: Acrasy (n.) Excess; intemperance.
Debauchery :: Debauchery (n.) Excessive indulgence of the appetites; especially, excessive indulgence of lust; intemperance; sensuality; habitual lewdness..
Temperancy :: Temperancy (n.) Temperance.
Debauch :: Debauch (n.) Excess in eating or drinking; intemperance; drunkenness; lewdness; debauchery.
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..
Temperate :: Temperate (v. t.) Proceeding from 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..
Fruit :: Fruit (v. t.) That which is produced; the effect or consequence of any action; advantageous or desirable product or result; disadvantageous or evil consequence or effect; as, the fruits of labor, of self-denial, of intemperance..
Abstemious :: Abstemious (a.) Sparingly used; used with temperance or moderation; as, an abstemious diet..
Temperance :: Temperance (v. t.) State with regard to heat or cold; temperature.
Debilitate :: Debilitate (v. t.) To impair the strength of; to weaken; to enfeeble; as, to debilitate the body by intemperance..
Attendant :: Attendant (v. t.) Accompanying, connected with, or immediately following, as consequential; consequent; as, intemperance with all its attendant evils..
Intemperancy :: Intemperancy (n.) Intemperance.
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..
Crapulence :: Crapulence (n.) The sickness occasioned by intemperance; surfeit.
Virtue :: Virtue (n.) A particular moral excellence; as, the virtue of temperance, of charity, etc..
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