Word Meanings - ATTEMPERANCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Temperance; attemperament. Chaucer.
Related words: (words related to ATTEMPERANCE)
- ATTEMPERAMENT
A tempering, or mixing in due proportion. - TEMPERANCE
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, - DISTEMPERANCE
Distemperature. - WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION
An association of women formed in the United States in 1874, for the advancement of temperance by organizing preventive, educational, evangelistic, social, and legal work. - ATTEMPERANCE
Temperance; attemperament. Chaucer. - INTEMPERANCE
1. The act of becoming, or state of being, intemperate; excess in any kind of action or indulgence; any immoderate indulgence of the appetites or passions. God is in every creature; be cruel toward none, neither abuse any by intemperance. Jer.