All 3 Uses of
temperate
in
Don Quixote
- Be temperate in drinking, bearing in mind that wine in excess keeps neither secrets nor promises.†
Chpt 2.43-44 *
- Don Antonio's wife came up and said, "I know not what to ask thee, Head; I would only seek to know of thee if I shall have many years of enjoyment of my good husband;" and the answer she received was, "Thou shalt, for his vigour and his temperate habits promise many years of life, which by their intemperance others so often cut short."†
Chpt 2.61-62
- Don Antonio's wife came up and said, "I know not what to ask thee, Head; I would only seek to know of thee if I shall have many years of enjoyment of my good husband;" and the answer she received was, "Thou shalt, for his vigour and his temperate habits promise many years of life, which by their intemperance others so often cut short."†
Chpt 2.61-62intemperance = the quality of tending toward excess -- especially of weather or behaviorstandard 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.
Definition:
lacking extremes -- especially of weather, climate, or behavior