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temperateness

noun as in abstemiousness

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Example Sentences

Temperateness becomes temporizing; lessons become lectures; debate becomes domineering.

Eudoxus thought it was the good, his opinion being the weightier because of his temperateness.

It would be manifestly unjust to exact of a mere patrolman a superior temperateness of judgment.

The extreme suggestiveness, and yet the taste and temperateness of this costume, seemed to me inimitable.

Hence, too, man himself is here freer of soul than elsewhere, for this temperateness of the climate prevails in all things.

From distant countries they have been brought, and taught to live in the cool temperateness of France.

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On this page you'll find 10 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to temperateness, such as: abstinence, ascetic, moderation, restraint, and self-denial.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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