Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The quality or condition of being extreme or immoderate.
- noun Something extreme or immoderate.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Want of moderation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare Immoderateness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The quality of being
immoderate .
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Examples
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If you want to continue on this path of immoderacy, go ahead, your funeral.
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My talk with the old Dutchman, and the lies to which I was constrained, had already given me a sense of how my conduct must appear to others; and now, after the strong admiration I had just experienced and the immoderacy with which I had continued my vain purchases, I began to think of it myself as very hazarded.
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Even in our sensual days the strength of delight is in its seldomness or rarity, and sting in its satiety; mediocrity is its life, and immoderacy its confusion.
A History of Elizabethan Literature George Saintsbury 1889
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My talk with the old Dutchman, and the lies to which I was constrained, had already given me a sense of how my conduct must appear to others; and now, after the strong admiration I had just experienced and the immoderacy with which I had continued my vain purchases, I began to think of it myself as very hasarded.
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My talk with the old Dutchman, and the lies to which I was constrained, had already given me a sense of how my conduct must appear to others; and now, after the strong admiration I had just experienced and the immoderacy with which I had continued my vain purchases, I began to think of it myself as very hazarded.
Catriona Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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Even in our sensual days, the strength of delight [95] is in its seldomness or rarity, and sting in its satiety: mediocrity is its life, and immoderacy its confusion.
Christian Morals 1605-1682 1863
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By our immoderacy we take his work out of his hand.
The Art of Divine Contentment: An Exposition of Philippians 4:11 1653
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Once a cheerleader for Wall Street immoderacy, Summers decried a "system that is based on massive borrowing, intermediated through a bloated financial system, in order to support excessive consumption."
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2010
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The full implications of immoderacy (e.g. deeply sectarian, anti-democracy) attached to the term may not be reflected by genuine fundamentalists (say those that see church state separation as sacred - as do some fundamentalist Christian and Muslim sects for example.
Thinkers' Podium 2008
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