Crossword clues for immoderation
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Immoderation \Im*mod`er*a"tion\, n. [L. immoderatio: cf. F.
imod['e]ration.]
Lack of moderation.
--Hallywell.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., from Latin immoderationem (nominative immoderatio) "want of moderation, excess," from immoderatus (see immoderate).
Wiktionary
n. Lack of moderation.
WordNet
n. the quality of being excessive and lacking in moderation [syn: immoderateness] [ant: moderation]
Usage examples of "immoderation".
Venice during Carnevale, after Shyla died, when I had been covering the revelry of Venetians before the long fastings and privations of Lent During the wildest part of that first night, I had marveled that these people who were celebrating the pleasures of the flesh with such open-ended immoderation could turn so quickly to the darker joys of self-denial.
When word reached him (during his wife's absence) that Bray had passed me for flunking his own diplomates, Rexford determined to follow my advice to the letter: to purge himself of every trace of immoderation and renounce absolutely all traffic with flunkèdness -- if his administration could not pass the "Open Book Test," let it fall!