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intemperance

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in·tem·per·ance  (n-tmpr-ns, -prns)
n.
1. Lack of temperance, as in the indulgence of an appetite or a passion.
2. Excessive use of alcoholic beverages.
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Noun1.intemperance - the quality of being intemperate
unrestraint - the quality of lacking restraint
gluttony - habitual eating to excess
temperance, moderation - the trait of avoiding excesses
2.intemperance - consumption of alcoholic drinks
vice - a specific form of evildoing; "vice offends the moral standards of the community"
boozing, crapulence, drink, drinking, drunkenness - the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess; "drink was his downfall"
3.intemperance - excess in action and immoderate indulgence of bodily appetites, especially in passion or indulgence; "the intemperance of their language"
spree, fling - a brief indulgence of your impulses
dissipation, licentiousness, profligacy, dissolution, looseness - dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure
jag - a bout of drinking or drug taking
humoring, indulging, pampering, indulgence - the act of indulging or gratifying a desire
Translations
intemperance [ɪnˈtempərəns] N (= lack of self-restraint) → intemperancia f, inmoderación f; (= drunkenness) → exceso m en la bebida
intemperance
n (= lack of moderation)Maßlosigkeit f, → Unmäßigkeit f; (= drunkenness)Trunksucht f


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Or is the same control to be extended to other artists, and are they also to be prohibited from exhibiting the opposite forms of vice and intemperance and meanness and indecency in sculpture and building and the other creative arts; and is he who cannot conform to this rule of ours to be prevented from practising his art in our State, lest the taste of our citizens be corrupted by him?
So saying, he took off his cup with much gravity, at the same time shaking his head at the intemperance of the Scottish harper.
To clear up which, I endeavoured to give some ideas of the desire of power and riches; of the terrible effects of lust, intemperance, malice, and envy.
 
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