temperance

4 definitions found

temperance - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Temperance \Tem"per*ance\, n. [L. temperantia: cf. F.
     temp['e]rance. See Temper, v. t.]
     1. Habitual moderation in regard to the indulgence of the
        natural appetites and passions; restrained or moderate
        indulgence; moderation; as, temperance in eating and
        drinking; temperance in the indulgence of joy or mirth;
        specifically, moderation, and sometimes abstinence, in
        respect to using intoxicating liquors.
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     2. Moderation of passion; patience; calmness; sedateness.
        [R.] "A gentleman of all temperance." --Shak.
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              He calmed his wrath with goodly temperance.
                                                    --Spenser.
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     3. State with regard to heat or cold; temperature. [Obs.]
        "Tender and delicate temperance." --Shak.
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     Temperance society, an association formed for the purpose
        of diminishing or stopping the use of alcoholic liquors as
        a beverage.
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temperance - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  temperance
      n 1: the trait of avoiding excesses [syn: temperance,
           moderation] [ant: intemperance]
      2: abstaining from excess [syn: sobriety, temperance]
      3: the act of tempering

temperance - U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :

  Temperance, MI (CDP, FIPS 79240)
    Location: 41.76760 N, 83.57230 W
    Population (1990): 6542 (2326 housing units)
    Area: 11.9 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 48182

temperance - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  82 Moby Thesaurus words for "temperance":
     Rechabitism, abnegation, abstemiousness, abstinence, asceticism,
     austerity, calm, calmness, cardinal virtues, charity, conservatism,
     constraint, continence, control, cool, dispassion, eschewal,
     evenness, faith, forbearance, forgoing, fortitude, gentleness,
     golden mean, gravity, happy medium, hope, impartiality,
     judiciousness, juste-milieu, justice, lenity, love, measure,
     meden agan, middle way, mildness, moderateness, moderation,
     moderationism, mortification, natural virtues, neutrality,
     nonviolence, nothing in excess, pacifism, prohibition, prudence,
     reasonableness, refrainment, repose, restraint, sacrifice,
     sedateness, self-abnegation, self-control, self-denial,
     self-discipline, self-restraint, serenity, seriousness,
     sober-mindedness, soberness, sobersidedness, sobersides, sobriety,
     solemnity, stability, staidness, steadiness, supernatural virtues,
     teetotalism, temperateness, theological virtues, tranquillity,
     undrunkenness, unexcessiveness, unextravagance, unextremeness,
     uninebriatedness, unintoxicatedness, via media