Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The practice or profession of moderation, especially in political opinion or measures: a term used in France during and since the first revolution with reference to the class of persons called
moderates in a political sense.
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Examples
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Marat thundered away in his paper against Brissotins, Girondins, federalism, and moderantism.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859 Various
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They, too, have been lately subjected to an expurgatory scrutiny, to drive out from them everything savoring of what they call the crime of _moderantism_, of which offence, however, few were guilty.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763
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