About The Word Intemperance

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Intemperance

Intemperance Meaning & Definition
Intemperance Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Intemperance?

[n] immoderate indulgence of bodily appetites
[n] consumption of alcoholic drinks
[n] the quality of being intemperate

Synonyms | Synonyms for Intemperance: intemperateness | self-indulgence

Related Terms | Find terms related to Intemperance: abandon | abandonment | bacchanalianism | Bacchus | bibaciousness | bibacity | bibulosity | bibulousness | boundlessness | carpe diem | conspicuous consumption | crapulence | crapulency | crapulousness | debauchery | Dionysus | dissipation | drunkenness | edacity | egregiousness | enormousness | exaggeration | excess | excessiveness | exorbitance | exorbitancy | extravagance | extravagancy | extreme | extremes | extremism | extremity | fabulousness | giantism | gigantism | gluttonousness | gluttony | greed | greediness | gulosity | hoggishness | hyperbole | hyperphagia | hypertrophy | immoderacy | immoderateness | immoderation | incontinence | indiscipline | inordinacy | inordinance | inordinateness | insatiability | insobriety | intemperateness | irrepressibility | lavishness | laxness | leaking purse | licentiousness | loose purse strings | monstrousness | nimiety | noncoercion | nonintimidation | omnivorousness | outrageousness | overdevelopment | overeating | overgenerosity | overgenerousness | overgreatness | overgrowth | overindulgence | overlargeness | overliberality | overmuch | overmuchness | permissiveness | piggishness | polyphagia | pound-foolishness | prodigality | profligacy | profuseness | profusion | radicalism | rapacity | ravenousness | reckless expenditure | reckless spending | riotousness | serious drinking | sottishness | squandering | squandermania | swinish gluttony | swinishness | too much | too-muchness | unconscionableness | unconstraint | uncontinence | uncontrol | undueness | uninhibitedness | unreasonableness | unreserve | unrestrainedness | unrestraint | unruliness | unstrictness | voraciousness | voracity | wantonness | waste | wastefulness | wildness

See Also | boozing | crapulence | dissipation | dissolution | drink | drinking | drunkenness | gluttony | jag | licentiousness | profligacy | unrestraint | vice

Intemperance In Webster's Dictionary

\In*tem"per*ance\, n. [F. intemp['e]rance, L. intemperantia. See {In-} not, and {Temperance}.] 1. The act of becoming, or state of being, intemperate; excess in any kind of action or indulgence; any immoderate indulgence of the appetites or passions. God is in every creature; be cruel toward none, neither abuse any by intemperance. --Jer. Taylor. Some, as thou sawest, by violent stroke shall die, By fire, flood, famine, by intemperance more In meats and drinks. --Milton. 2. Specifically: Habitual or excessive indulgence in alcoholic liquors.

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