Word Meanings - TEMPERANCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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,

Additional info about word: TEMPERANCE

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. 2. Moderation of passion; patience; calmness; sedateness. "A gentleman of all temperance." Shak. He calmed his wrath with goodly temperance. Spenser. 3. State with regard to heat or cold; temperature. "Tender and delicate temperance." Shak. Temperance society, an association formed for the purpose of diminishing or stopping the use of alcoholic liquors as a beverage.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TEMPERANCE)

• Continence
• Abstinence
• selfcontrol
• refrain
• Chastity
• sobriety
• temperance
• Ebriety
• Soberness
• freshness
• Moderation
• Temperance
• frugality
• calmness
• sedateness
• mildness
• coolness
• deliberateness
• Sobriety
• abstemiousness

Related words: (words related to TEMPERANCE)

• FRESHNESS
  The state of being fresh. The Scots had the advantage both for number and freshness of men. Hayward. And breathe the freshness of the open air. Dryden. Her cheeks their freshness lose and wonted grace. Granville.
• MILDNESS
  The quality or state of being mild; as, mildness of temper; the mildness of the winter.
• REFRAINMENT
  Act of refraining.
• COOLNESS
  1. The state of being cool; a moderate degree of cold; a moderate degree, or a want, of passion; want of ardor, zeal, or affection; calmness. 2. Calm impudence; self-possession.
• CONTINENCE; CONTINENCY
  1. Self-restraint; self-command. He knew what to say; he knew also, when to leave off, -- a continence which is practiced by few writers. Dryden. 2. The restraint which a person imposes upon his desires and passions; the act or power of refraining
• MODERATION
  The first public examinations for degrees at the University of Oxford; -- usually contracted to mods. (more info) 1. The act of moderating, or of imposing due restraint. 2. The state or quality of being mmoderate. In moderation placing
• CALMNESS
  The state of quality of being calm; quietness; tranquillity; self-repose. The gentle calmness of the flood. Denham. Hes calmness was the repose of conscious power. E. Everett. Syn. -- Quietness; quietude; stillness; tranquillity; serenity; repose;
• FRUGALITY
  1. The quality of being frugal; prudent economy; that careful management of anything valuable which expends nothing unnecessarily, and applies what is used to a profitable purpose; thrift; --- opposed to extravagance. Frugality is founded on the
• CHASTITY
  Chasteness. (more info) 1. The state of being chaste; purity of body; freedom from unlawful sexual intercourse. She . . . hath preserved her spotless chastity. T. Carew. 2. Moral purity. So dear to heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul
• DELIBERATENESS
  The quality of being deliberate; calm consideration; circumspection.
• EBRIETY
  Drunkenness; intoxication by spirituous liquors; inebriety. "Ruinous ebriety." Cowper.
• SOBERNESS
  The quality or state of being sober.
• ABSTINENCE
  1. The act or practice of abstaining; voluntary forbearance of any action, especially the refraining from an indulgence of appetite, or from customary gratifications of animal or sensual propensities. Specifically, the practice of abstaining from
• REFRAINER
  One who refrains.
• TEMPERANCE
  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,
• REFRAIN
  L. refrenare; influenced by OF. refraindre to restrain, moderate, fr. LL. refrangere, for L. refringere to break up, break . L. refrenare is fr. pref. re- back + frenum bridle; cf. Skr. dh to 1. To hold back; to restrain; to keep within prescribed
• SOBRIETY
  1. Habitual soberness or temperance as to the use of spirituous liquors; as, a man of sobriety. Public sobriety is a relative duty. Blackstone. 2. Habitual freedom from enthusiasm, inordinate passion, or overheated imagination; calmness; coolness;
• ABSTEMIOUSNESS
  The quality of being abstemious, temperate, or sparing in the use of food and strong drinks. It expresses a greater degree of abstinence than temperance.
• INSOBRIETY
  Want of sobriety, moderation, or calmness; intemperance; drunkenness.
• DISTEMPERANCE
  Distemperature.
• INEBRIETY
  Drunkenness; inebriation. E. Darwin.
• WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION
  An association of women formed in the United States in 1874, for the advancement of temperance by organizing preventive, educational, evangelistic, social, and legal work.
• INABSTINENCE
  Want of abstinence; indulgence. "The inabstinence of Eve." Milton.
• ATTEMPERANCE
  Temperance; attemperament. Chaucer.
• IMMODERATION
  Want of moderation. Hallywell.
• INCHASTITY
  Unchastity. Milton.