temperance
Example Sentences
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"Edinburgh was more the intellectual city in Scotland and the temperance movement went alongside the more industrial areas."
From BBC • Dec. 29, 2025
Beloved in colonial America, hard cider lost favor in the mid-19th century as crisp lagers ascended; the temperance movement and Prohibition felled cider-apple trees.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 25, 2025
They recognized actual social change as extending beyond the idea of temperance, which they saw as a necessary but insufficient condition for improving the U.S. social order during the mid-19th century.
From Salon • Nov. 10, 2024
Early Free Methodists were active in the temperance and abolitionist movements.
From Seattle Times • Feb. 22, 2024
In the months that followed, she returned to the temperance organizations that she had helped to organize just a few years before, but she found that many of the groups had disbanded.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
