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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Temperance \Tem"per*ance\, n. [L. temperantia: cf. F. temp['e]rance. See Temper, v. t.]
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.
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Moderation of passion; patience; calmness; sedateness. [R.] ``A gentleman of all temperance.''
--Shak.He calmed his wrath with goodly temperance.
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State with regard to heat or cold; temperature. [Obs.] ``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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., "self-restraint, moderation," from Anglo-French temperaunce (mid-13c.), from Latin temperantia "moderation, sobriety, discretion, self-control," from temperans, present participle of temperare "to moderate" (see temper (v.)). Latin temperantia was used by Cicero to translate Greek sophrosyne "moderation." In English, temperance was used to render Latin continentia or abstinentia, specifically in reference to drinking alcohol and eating; hence by early 1800s it had come to mean "abstinence from alcoholic drink."
Wiktionary
n. 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 intoxicate liquors. 2 moderation of passion; patience; calmness; sedateness. 3 One of the seven heavenly virtues. 4 (context obsolete English) State with regard to heat or cold; temperature.
WordNet
n. the trait of avoiding excesses [syn: moderation] [ant: intemperance]
abstaining from excess [syn: sobriety]
the act of tempering
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Wikipedia
Temperance is defined as moderation or voluntary self-restraint. It is typically described in terms of what an individual voluntarily refrains from doing. This includes restraint from retaliation in the form of non-violence and forgiveness, restraint from arrogance in the form of humility and modesty, restraint from excesses such as splurging now in the form of prudence, and restraint from excessive anger or craving for something in the form of calmness and self-control.
Temperance has been described as a virtue by religious thinkers, philosophers, and more recently, psychologists, particularly in the positive psychology movement. It was one of the cardinal virtues in western thought found in Greek philosophy and Christianity, as well as eastern traditions such as Buddhism and Hinduism. Temperance is one of the six virtues in the positive psychology classification, included with wisdom, courage, humanity, justice, and transcendence. It is generally characterized as the control over excess, and expressed through characteristics such as chastity, modesty, humility, prudence, self-regulation, forgiveness and mercy; each of these involves restraining an excess of some impulse, such as sexual desire, vanity, or anger.
Temperance (XIV) is the fourteenth trump or Major Arcana card in most traditional Tarot decks. It is used in game playing as well as in divination.
Temperance was a Canadian musical group, best known for its 1996 cover of the Alphaville song " Forever Young" which was featured in Season 1, Episode 18 of the North American version of the TV series Queer As Folk.
Temperance is an Italian female fronted modern melodic metal band.
Temperance is the self-titled first full-length album by the Italian modern melodic female fronted metal band Temperance. The album also contains a cover version of Christina Perri's "A Thousand Years".
Usage examples of "temperance".
He believed true wisdom to be an attainable idea, and that the moral convictions of the mind, those eternal instincts of temperance, conscientiousness, and justice, implanted in it by the gods, could not deceive, if rightly interpreted.
Their serious and sequestered life, averse to the gay luxury of the age, inured them to chastity, temperance, economy, and all the sober and domestic virtues.
Lear signally exemplified, through every phase of passion, that temperance which should give it smoothness.
The English general wrote me a note asking me to sup with him, telling me that some Italians would be present, and this decided me to stay on, but I had to promise the doctor to observe strict temperance.
When he dined out he had to drink nothing but water, so as not to compromise his reputation for temperance.
Gossip had also reached Jennet that Mark was taking time to pay calls on Temperance Strelley, which put the maidservant in a foul mood to match that of her mistress.
We learn from Plato, that it was also necessary for the soul to be purified from every stain: and that the purification necessary was such as gave virtue, truth, wisdom, strength, justice, and temperance.
Mary was not considered a serious threat to any of the larger breweries, her Temperance Ale and Bitter Rosella had earned a reputation in the colony for their quality and some of the public houses not tied to the mainstream breweries now accepted Bitter Rosie by the barrel, which was a major boost to her production.
It pained Vok that it was so, now that his own years had taught him both temperance and wisdom, but he had neither the energy nor the inclination to change the order of things at such a late point in his own journey.
I was a Son of Malty and a member of several other Temperance Societies, and my wife she was a Dawter of Malty, an I sposed these fax would secoor me the infloonz and pertectiun of all the fust families.
In his months of serf-enforced temperance, he had forgotten the power of woti to draw out the hidden, to release things best boundto make hardened men bawl like mouseling infants.
Some of the photoplay people agree with this temperance sermon, and some of them do not.
Bear broke out a demijohn of popskull liquor and led the final bout of drinking, this being long before his later frequent vows of temperance.
Anyhow, Stires was a temperance man: he took only one or two drinks a day, and seldom went beyond a modest gin-fizz.
Think of Edward of Caernarvon, the first Prince of Wales, a perverse life, Pennyfeather, and an unseemly death, then the Tudors and the dissolution of the Church, then Lloyd George, the temperance movement, Noncomformity, and lust stalking hand in hand through the country, wasting and ravaging.