Sentence example with the word 'intemperance'

intemperance

abandon, crapulency, exorbitance, gluttonousness, immoderation, laxness, overeating, piggishness, reckless spending, unconstraint, voraciousness

Definition n. the quality of being intemperate

Last update: September 10, 2015


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One must check the intemperance of anger.   [Please select]

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In addition to the encyclical letter, nineteen resolutions were put forth, and the reports of twelve special committees are appended upon which they are based, the subjects being intemperance, purity, divorce, polygamy, observance of Sunday, socialism, care of emigrants, mutual relations of dioceses of the Anglican Communion, home reunion, Scandinavian Church, Old Catholics, &c., Eastern Churches, standards of doctrine and worship. Perhaps the most important of these is the famous "Lambeth Quadrilateral," which laid down a fourfold basis for home reunion - the Holy Scriptures, the Apostles' and Nicene creeds, the two sacraments ordained by Christ himself and the historic episcopate.   [Please select]

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"Yes, sir; he was discharged for intemperance."   [Please select]

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Moore was a married man, who, with his wife, was addicted to intemperance and carousing.   [Please select]

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Wynne, though still the handsomest and finest man in Raxton, had sunk much lower in intemperance of late.   [Please select]

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My uncle having known Wynne when quite a young man, before intemperance had degraded him, took an interest in him still.   [Please select]

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Whatever talent he might have had originally had been dulled and obscured by chronic intemperance.   [Please select]

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