Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or character of being temperate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being temperate; moderateness; temperance.
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- noun The characteristic of being
temperate .
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- noun moderate weather; suitable for outdoor activities
- noun exhibiting restraint imposed on the self
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Examples
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Susan Boyle is a model of that virtue (for which 'temperateness' is a better translation than the now-ruined 'temperance')
MercatorNet 2009
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Susan Boyle is a model of that virtue (for which 'temperateness' is a better translation than the now-ruined 'temperance')
MercatorNet 2009
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After I had drunk half a dozen glasses, my policy of temperateness in mind, I decided that I had had enough for that time.
Chapter 9 2010
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When it is considered that there is no public-house in all the island and that seven thousand souls dwell therein, some idea may be gained of the temperateness of the community.
SAMUEL 2010
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His was a wise and instinctive temperateness that savored of the
WHEN GOD LAUGHS 2010
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In this sense, whatever its temperateness and generality, the Cairo speech played for higher stakes than any strategist in an earlier mold could have advised or foreseen. —
Advice to the Prince Bromwich, David 2009
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Its orderly vistas open receptive minds to the symmetry, balance, proportion and temperateness of our political institutions and the civil society that sustains our common purposes.
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It needs someone with Senator Obama's understanding, temperateness, deliberativeness, maturity, compassion, toughness, and faith, to help us rebuild our house once again.
Bruce Springsteen: From the Stage at the Vote For Change Rally in Philadelphia 2008
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The first is "restraint, mildness, temperateness."
12/01/2003 - 01/01/2004 John 2003
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Hence, too, man himself is here freer of soul than elsewhere, for this temperateness of the climate prevails in all things.
The Early Middle Ages 500-1000 Robert Brentano 1964
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