Word Meanings - TEMPERANCY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Temperance.

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,
DISTEMPERANCE
Distemperature.
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.
ATTEMPERANCE
Temperance; attemperament. Chaucer.
INTEMPERANCE
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.