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 wrote with temperateness, and in pitying love of human nature, in the instinctive hope of helping it to know and redeem itself.
From Memories of Hawthorne by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop
No colony had behaved with so much temperateness and discretion.
From The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 1 of 2. From 1620-1816 by Egerton Ryerson
