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Meanings of intemperateness in English

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intemperància

Excess in action and immoderate indulgence of bodily appetites, especially in passion or indulgence.

        intemperància
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        Examples for "intemperance"
        Examples for "intemperance"
        1
        The danger is in the unrestrained appetite, in intemperance that becomes habit.
        A Backward Glance at Eighty: Recollections & Comment
        2
        The same law operates as unerringly in the inherited predisposition to intemperance.
        Danger; Or, Wounded in the House of a Friend
        3
        In many instances, there is great intemperance in both eating and drinking.
        Twentieth Century Negro Literature / Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought...
        4
        Red Jacket felt that intemperance had been the bane of his life.
        An Account of Sa-Go-Ye-Wat-Ha, or Red Jacket, and His People, 17...
        5
        In the fall of 1837 he was dismissed, I think, for intemperance.
        Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet / ...
        1
        Photo: Facebook Robert Semoso accused the Momis governments of self-indulgence and mismanagement.
        Radio NZ
        2
        God loves in us the self-mastery that scorns to compromise with self-indulgence.
        Men in the Making
        3
        But the misery is entirely the result of human ignorance and self-indulgence.
        Thrift
        4
        It is wrong to spend two months in self-indulgence without any self-discipline.
        Stray Thoughts for Girls
        5
        Luck slips downwards to self-indulgence; Labour strides upward, and aspires to independence.
        Thrift
        Usage of intemperateness in English
        1
        His intemperateness lay in the craving to rise and lead: a precocious ambition.
        Diana of the Crossways — Volume 2
        2
        Mr. Adister had no ground of opposition but his own intemperateness.
        Celt and Saxon — Volume 1
        3
        The intemperateness of Mr. Truman's anti-Stevenson campaign probably gave Mr. Stevenson the nomination on the first ballot.
        The new yorker
        4
        He had not forgiven Dartrey for the intemperateness which cut off a brilliant soldier from the service.
        One of Our Conquerors — Volume 4
        5
        Beautiful women in her position provoke an intemperateness that contrasts touchingly with the self-restraint of a particular admirer.
        Diana of the Crossways — Volume 3
        6
        But, on the other hand, he greatly marred his influence by what might be called impetuous intemperateness in his early press career.
        Personal Recollections of Early Melbourne and Victoria
        7
        But in Barton's case, one wonders how much his intemperateness has been detrimental to his football and to his progression in the game.
        The Guardian
        Translations for intemperateness
        Intemperateness through the time