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Intemperateness   Listen
Intemperateness

noun
1.
Consumption of alcoholic drinks.  Synonym: intemperance.
2.
Excess in action and immoderate indulgence of bodily appetites, especially in passion or indulgence.  Synonyms: intemperance, self-indulgence.






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"Intemperateness" Quotes from Famous Books



... the successive shocks of discernment. She knew the to have some of the vices, many follies, all the intemperateness of men who carve a way for themselves in the common roads, if barely they do that. And resembling common men (men, in a judgement elective as hers, common, however able), I was not assuredly to be separated by her from my associations; ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith



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