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Meanings of intemperance in English
Catalan
intemperància Excess in action and immoderate indulgence of bodily appetites, especially in passion or indulgence.
Catalan
intemperància Usage of intemperance in English
1
The danger is in the unrestrained appetite, in intemperance that becomes habit.
2
The same law operates as unerringly in the inherited predisposition to intemperance.
3
In many instances, there is great intemperance in both eating and drinking.
4
Red Jacket felt that intemperance had been the bane of his life.
5
In the fall of 1837 he was dismissed, I think, for intemperance.
6
Need I warn-needI exhort-theyoung to avoid the habit of intemperance.
7
Alfred, I am told intemperance is the curse of the theatrical profession.
8
Idleness and intemperance greatly intensified the vulgar recklessness of his political passions.
9
Objection 1: It would seem that intemperance is not a childish sin.
10
Their taking off was an awful example of the evils of intemperance.
11
The child of a surgeon who had rained his family by intemperance.
12
His youth had not been wasted in idleness, nor overcast by intemperance.
13
He depicted the hideous evils and wrongs of intemperance, slavery, and war.
14
There is some exaggeration, in my opinion, about this disease-theory of intemperance.
15
Of all forms of vice, intemperance was the one she hated most.
16
Intemperate habits are formed, and, once formed, the habit of intemperance continues.
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