Definition of intemperances Intemperances
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What does intemperances mean?
Wiktionary 
- intemperances (Noun)
Plural of intemperance.
Part of speech
🔤- intemperances, noun, plural of intemperance.
WordNet
NounPlural: intemperances |
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| intemperance - excess in action and immoderate indulgence of bodily appetites, especially in passion or indulgence; "the intemperance of their language" | ||
| intemperateness, self-indulgence | ||
| humoring, indulging, pampering, indulgence the remission by the pope of the temporal punishment in purgatory that is still due for sins even after absolution; "in the Middle Ages the unrestricted sale of indulgences by pardoners became a widespread abuse" | ||
| spree, fling a brief indulgence of your impulses | ||
| licentiousness, profligacy, dissipation, dissolution, looseness the quality of being lewd and lascivious | ||
| intemperance - consumption of alcoholic drinks | ||
| intemperateness | ||
| vice a specific form of evildoing; "vice offends the moral standards of the community" | ||
| intemperance - the quality of being intemperate | ||
| temperance, moderation the act of tempering | ||
| unrestraint the quality of lacking restraint | ||
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Wiktionary
- intemperance (Noun)
Lack of moderation or temperance; excess. - intemperance (Noun)
Drunkenness; gluttony.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- intemperance (n.)
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. - intemperance (n.)
Specifically: Habitual or excessive indulgence in alcoholic liquors.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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intemperance
in-tem′pėr-ans, n. want of due restraint: excess of any kind: habitual indulgence in intoxicating liquor.—n. Intem′perant, one who is intemperate.—adj. Intem′perate, indulging to excess any appetite or passion: given to an immoderate use of intoxicating liquors: passionate: exceeding the usual degree: immoderate.—adv. Intem′perately.—n. Intem′perateness
Part of speech
🔤- intemperance, noun, singular of intemperances.
