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Temperance
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- 1 A female given name from English.
- 2 The fourteenth trump or major arcana card in most traditional Tarot decks.
- 1 Habitual moderation in regard to the indulgence of the natural appetites and passions; restrained or moderate indulgence. countable, uncountable
"temperance in eating and drinking"
- 2 the act of tempering wordnet
- 3 Moderation, and sometimes abstinence, in respect to using intoxicating liquors. countable, uncountable
"Another error, as it seems to me, into which the old reformers fell, was the position that all habitual drunkards were utterly incorrigible, and therefore must be turned adrift and damned without remedy in order that the grace of temperance might abound, to the temperate then, and to all mankind some hundreds of years thereafter."
- 4 abstaining from excess wordnet
- 5 Moderation of passion; calmness. countable, uncountable
"[…] in the verie Torrent, Tempeſt, and (as I may ſay) the Whirle-winde of Paſſion, you muſt acquire and beget a Temperance that may giue it Smoothneſſe."
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- 6 the trait of avoiding excesses wordnet
- 7 State with regard to heat or cold; temperature. countable, obsolete, uncountable
"It [the climate] must needs be of subtle, tender, and delicate temperance."
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman temperance, from Latin temperantia (“moderation, sobriety, discretion, self-control”), from temperans, present participle of temperare (“to moderate”). See temper. English equivalent temper + -ance.
From temperance. A virtue name first used by Puritans in the 16th century.
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