intemperance
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Fault-based divorce, on the other hand, requires the partner seeking the divorce to provide evidence of their spouse's wrongdoing on specific grounds that also vary state-to-state, including cruelty, adultery, intemperance and abandonment.
From Salon • Nov. 4, 2024
As evidence of Mr. Kitman’s prodigious research into Washington’s intemperance, he cited a mention that the general had gained 28 pounds during the war, which lasted more than seven years.
From New York Times • Jun. 29, 2023
And intemperance is the order of the day.
From Washington Post • Jun. 27, 2022
As reformers made progress against ills like intemperance, they increasingly saw the moral blindness and cruelty of slavery as the greatest and most intractable obstacles to American improvement.
From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018
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
Vocabulary lists containing intemperance
The Tragedy of Macbeth
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"The Tragedy of Macbeth," Vocabulary from Act 4
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