Intemperance

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Intemperance \In*tem"per*ance\, n. [F. intemp['e]rance, L.
     intemperantia. See {In-} not, and {Temperance}.]
     [1913 Webster]
     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.


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              God is in every creature; be cruel toward none,
              neither abuse any by intemperance.    --Jer. Taylor.
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              Some, as thou sawest, by violent stroke shall die,
              By fire, flood, famine, by intemperance more
              In meats and drinks.                  --Milton.
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     2. Specifically: Habitual or excessive indulgence in
        alcoholic liquors.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  intemperance
       n 1: the quality of being intemperate [ant: {temperance}]
       2: consumption of alcoholic drinks [syn: {intemperateness}]
       3: immoderate indulgence of bodily appetites [syn: {intemperateness},
           {self-indulgence}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  118 Moby Thesaurus words for "intemperance":
     Bacchus, Dionysus, abandon, abandonment, bacchanalianism,
     bibaciousness, bibacity, bibulosity, bibulousness, boundlessness,
     carpe diem, conspicuous consumption, crapulence, crapulency,
     crapulousness, debauchery, dissipation, drunkenness, edacity,
     egregiousness, enormousness, exaggeration, excess, excessiveness,
     exorbitance, exorbitancy, extravagance, extravagancy, extreme,
     extremes, extremism, extremity, fabulousness, giantism, gigantism,
     gluttonousness, gluttony, greed, greediness, gulosity, hoggishness,
     hyperbole, hyperphagia, hypertrophy, immoderacy, immoderateness,
     immoderation, incontinence, indiscipline, inordinacy, inordinance,
     inordinateness, insatiability, insobriety, intemperateness,
     irrepressibility, lavishness, laxness, leaking purse,
     licentiousness, loose purse strings, monstrousness, nimiety,
     noncoercion, nonintimidation, omnivorousness, outrageousness,
     overdevelopment, overeating, overgenerosity, overgenerousness,
     overgreatness, overgrowth, overindulgence, overlargeness,
     overliberality, overmuch, overmuchness, permissiveness,
     piggishness, polyphagia, pound-foolishness, prodigality,
     profligacy, profuseness, profusion, radicalism, rapacity,
     ravenousness, reckless expenditure, reckless spending, riotousness,
     serious drinking, sottishness, squandering, squandermania,
     swinish gluttony, swinishness, too much, too-muchness,
     unconscionableness, unconstraint, uncontinence, uncontrol,
     undueness, uninhibitedness, unreasonableness, unreserve,
     unrestrainedness, unrestraint, unruliness, unstrictness,
     voraciousness, voracity, wantonness, waste, wastefulness,
     wildness