Sample Sentences for
temperance
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(editor-reviewed)

temperance as in:  lacks temperance

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I know what is good for me, but I lack temperance or self-control when I drink.
temperance = moderation
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    I learned temperance in my spending.
    temperance = moderation or self-restraint
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    Miep drank ten schnapps and smoked three cigarettes—could this be our temperance advocate.  (source)
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    I'm also Health and Temperance Director, which means I present special programs and coordinate the other medical workers in our church.  (source)
    Temperance = encouraging self-control and balanced lifestyle choices
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    Reason aspires to wisdom, Will aspires to courage, and Appetite must be curbed so that temperance can be exercised.  (source)
    temperance = moderation or self-control
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    In 1892, for instance, the Reverend Lyman Abbott of New York City pronounced that "at least one-tenth of the population ...belong to the dependent, that is, to the pauper and criminal class ... In our great cities, poverty, ignorance, intemperance, and crime, the four great enemies of Republican institutions, thrive in frightfully overcrowded districts..."  (source)
    intemperance = lack of self-restraint
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in intemperance means not and reverses the meaning of temperance. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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    They had enough appetite to eat well, enough temperance to drink in moderation, and enough wisdom to celebrate the absence of their children by getting a good night's sleep.  (source)
    temperance = self-restraint or self-control
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    I did not like decorum or rectitude in a classroom; I preferred a highly oxygenated atmosphere, a climate of intemperance, rhetoric, and feverish melodrama.†  (source)
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    The guards exchanged smiles and rolled their eyes while the tinker gave an impromptu sermon on the subject of temperance.  (source)
    temperance = moderation or self-restraint
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    She accepted his frequent intemperance as part of the climate, healed him dutifully whenever he was sick and always tried to make him eat a breakfast.†  (source)
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    Joining a rejuvenated Fascist group known as the National Radical party, which began to exert commanding sway among the students of the Polish universities, the Professor—now a dominant voice—advised temperance, once more cautioning against the wave of clubbings and muggings which had begun to beset the Jews, not only in the universities but in the streets.  (source)
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    Spots appeared on his nose, the redness of which was evidently due to intemperance, and his mouth twitched nervously.†  (source)
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    At the very moment of indulging her appetite she believes that she is practising temperance.  (source)
    temperance = self-restraint or self-control
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    Mitya, of course, was pulled up again for the intemperance of his language, but Rakitin was done for.†  (source)
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temperance as in:  the temperance movement

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The temperance movement led to Prohibition which completely outlawed the drinking of alcohol.
temperance = the belief that alcohol should not be drunk at all because it is harmful
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    They called her "Lemonade Lucy" because her support of the temperance movement led her to ban alcohol in the White House.
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    Tom joined the new order of Cadets of Temperance, being attracted by the showy character of their "regalia."  (source)
    Temperance = a movement to discourage or outlaw the drinking of alcohol
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    Yet Dives himself, he too lives like a Czar in an ice palace made of frozen sighs, and being a president of a temperance society, he only drinks the tepid tears of orphans.  (source)
    temperance = discouraging the drinking of alcohol
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    He made a point of temperance during working hours—  (source)
    temperance = not drinking alcohol
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    I suppose, that I am a worker in the temperance cause?  (source)
    temperance = movement to discourage or outlaw the drinking of alcohol
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    A most devilish kind of Spanish burgundy, warranted free from added alcohol: a Temperance burgundy in fact.  (source)
    Temperance = discouraging the drinking of alcohol
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    First they done a lecture on temperance; but they didn't make enough for them both to get drunk on.  (source)
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    "There is some sneaking Temperance Society movement about this business," he suddenly added, now approaching Starbuck, who had just come from forward.  (source)
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    The temperance folks had given America Prohibition, and had thrown in a ban on gambling while they were at it.  (source)
    temperance = with the belief that alcohol should not be drunk at all because it is harmful
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    And, what is more, local secretary of the Temperance Society—  (source)
    Temperance = discouraging the drinking of alcohol
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    And after supper he talked to him about temperance and such things till the old man cried, and said he'd been a fool, and fooled away his life;  (source)
    temperance = not drinking alcohol because it is thought to be harmful
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    In 1929, when the Depression came and poverty began to replace temperance as the narrower of American life, Tijuanan businesses kept prices at bargain-basement levels, so that northern tourists purring past the clapboard shops along the Avenida Revolution could afford to live high in every conceivable way: lobster dinners, fine spirits, salon services, dancing.  (source)
    temperance = the belief that alcohol should not be drunk at all because it is harmful
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    Yes, and for the Temperance Society.  (source)
    Temperance = discouraging the drinking of alcohol
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