immoderate

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The Polish operatic actress Helena Modjeska founded a 19th-century utopian colony in Anaheim, but it foundered, in no small part because of immoderate weather, like the wind.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 28, 2021

Ehrenreich records the medieval Christian church’s long battle to eradicate unruly, ecstatic or immoderate dancing from the congregation.

From The Guardian • Jun. 2, 2020

When we are young, we make immoderate demands on those powers that steer existence.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 14, 2019

MacCulloch paints a portrait of Cromwell as a brilliant individualist with a talent for making money, a head for languages, an immoderate love of books and many friends.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 10, 2018

Exces′sive, beyond what is right and proper: immoderate: violent.—adv.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various