temperance

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Habitual moderation in regard to the indulgence of the natural appetites and passions; restrained or moderate indulgence. countable,uncountable
    — temperance in eating and drinking
  2. Moderation, and sometimes abstinence, in respect to using intoxicating liquors. countable,uncountable
    — Another error, as it seems to me, into which the old reformers fell, was the position that all habitual drunkards were utterly incorrigible, and therefore must be turned adrift and damned without remedy in order that the grace of temperance might abound, to the temperate then, and to all mankind some hundreds of years thereafter.
  3. Moderation of passion; calmness. countable,uncountable
    — […] in the verie Torrent, Tempeſt, and (as I may ſay) the Whirle-winde of Paſſion, you muſt acquire and beget a Temperance that may giue it Smoothneſſe.
  4. State with regard to heat or cold; temperature. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — It [the climate] must needs be of subtle, tender, and delicate temperance.

词形变化

temperances plural temperaunce alternative

词汇关系

反义词
intemperance gluttony
衍生词
American Temperance Society antitemperance Loyal Temperance Legion temperance association temperance bar temperance beverage temperance chartism temperance chartist Temperance Colonization Society temperance colony temperance education temperance group temperance hotel temperance journal temperance lobby temperance magazine temperance meeting temperance movement temperance movement zealot temperance norm temperance organisation temperance organization temperance paper temperance play temperance pledge temperance reading room temperance society temperance writer Toronto Temperance Society Woman's Christian Temperance Union Youth Temperance Council
相关词
temper temperament temperamental temperature

词源

From Anglo-Norman temperance, from Latin temperantia (“moderation, sobriety, discretion, self-control”), from temperans, present participle of temperare (“to moderate”). See temper. English equivalent temper + -ance.
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