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intemperance

[in-tem-per-uhns, -pruhns] / ɪnˈtɛm pər əns, -prəns /
NOUN
insobriety
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The intemperance of rebellion and the wisdom of experience — that’s the balance Green Day strikes on “Saviors,” the trio’s 14th studio LP.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 15, 2024

And intemperance is the order of the day.

From Washington Post • Jun. 27, 2022

Still, faulting a novel of this register for intemperance feels like faulting an opera for being “too loud.”

From New York Times • Apr. 3, 2022

Some spats are sparked by the jealousy of older moderates; others by the intemperance of younger progressives.

From Salon • Aug. 6, 2019

I was there—on the very rim of our age— when my mother’s cataclysmic intemperance, as you well know, catapulted me into the fever of contemporary existence.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole