temperateness

Example Sentences

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It is a sow’s ear made from the silk purse of his election, which was the nation’s plea for temperateness.

From Washington Post • Dec. 15, 2021

The smartest strategy, therefore, is to encourage Kavanaugh when he demonstrates temperateness and restraint.

From Washington Post • Sep. 17, 2021

For all his temperateness of tone, and for all the meticulously reasoned arguments that he has shepherded into the pages of National Affairs, Levin justly says his ideas are radical.

From New York Times • Jul. 2, 2014

He was scrupulously honest with his customers, and fairly moderate in his charges, relying on this uncommon integrity and temperateness of disposition to make personal liking the basis of his commercial success.

From The Twins of Suffering Creek by Cullum, Ridgwell

And that maketh the plenty and fatness of the earth and temperateness of weather, of air, and of water.

From Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus by Steele, Robert