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Intemperance

noun

The quality of being intemperate.

Consumption of alcoholic drinks. Synonym: intemperateness.

Excess in action and immoderate indulgence of bodily appetites, especially in passion or indulgence. Synonyms: intemperateness, self-indulgence.

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"Intemperance" Quotes from Famous Books

... father's varying moods, and recognised in the peculiar tone in which the order was given, a species of despondency—almost amounting to despair— which not unfrequently ushered in some of his worst fits of intemperance. ...

— The Young Trawler • R.M. Ballantyne

... and as leaders in higher ideals of life, the advanced women of America came early face to face with two outgrown abuses. One of these was human slavery and the other was intemperance. In attacking these abuses, women had to break with all the traditions ...

— Woman in Modern Society • Earl Barnes

... part of Sweden. His great-grandfather had gone to Norway to work as a farm laborer and had married a Norwegian girl. This strain of Norwegian blood came out somewhere in each generation of the Kronborgs. The intemperance of one of Peter Kronborg's uncles, and the religious mania of another, had been alike charged to the Norwegian grandmother. Both Peter Kronborg and his sister Tillie were more like the Norwegian root of the family than like the Swedish, and this same Norwegian strain was strong in Thea, though ...

— Song of the Lark • Willa Cather

... is sometimes in danger of losing its supremacy, even after having asserted it. Instinct, which, in brutes, holds the place of free-will, confines their physical cravings within certain limits, and we never see an animal wallow in intemperance; but man, just because enjoying absolute freedom of will, may extend his desires beyond every limit, and so much strain and invigorate them as to succumb under their influence. Therefore reason, whether from its tardy development, or from the unlimited ascendancy of sensuality, holds the reins of ...

— A Guide for the Religious Instruction of Jewish Youth • Isaac Samuele Reggio

... that the clergy did oppose it. If, as you say, they do oppose it because they fear it will extend the liquor traffic, I think their reason exceedingly stupid. You cannot make men temperate by shutting up a few of the saloons and leaving others wide open. Intemperance must be met with other weapons. The church ought not to appeal to force. What would the clergy of Washington think should the miracle of Cana be repeated in their day? Had they been in that country, with their present ...

— The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Volume VIII. - Interviews • Robert Green Ingersoll

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