temperance
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"The lasting influences of the temperance movement went on for quite a long time," Ms Marshall says.
From BBC ● Dec. 29, 2025
A Jewish homeland in backwaters of the Ottoman empire seemed unattainable, and pressing domestic concerns like slavery and temperance took precedence.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025
Early Free Methodists were active in the temperance and abolitionist movements.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 22, 2024
Whether teetotaling, temperance or virgin, they’re just drinks, after all — though I suppose their intricacy beyond fresh-squeezed juice demands we label them something nobler.
From Salon ● Feb. 15, 2024
Stanton scaled back her work on temperance reform after 1842, when she gave birth to her first child, a boy, named Daniel Cady Stanton.
From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling
Vocabulary lists containing temperance
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