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temperance
noun as in self-restraint; abstinence
Strong matches
- abnegation
- abstemiousness
- asceticism
- astringency
- austerity
- conservatism
- constraint
- continence
- control
- discretion
- forbearance
- forgoing
- frugality
- measure
- moderateness
- moderation
- moderatism
- mortification
- prohibition
- prudence
- reasonableness
- restraint
- sacrifice
- self-control
- self-denial
- self-discipline
- soberness
- sobriety
- stoicism
- teetotalism
Example Sentences
They recognized actual social change as extending beyond the idea of temperance, which they saw as a necessary but insufficient condition for improving the U.S. social order during the mid-19th century.
Had there been a simple spelling mistake, the last executed witches in England would in fact be the Bideford Three - Temperance Lloyd, Susannah Edwards and Mary Trembles - in 1682.
Moral discipline, humble virtue and indeed, a trust resting solely on the “inner beard” need not have applied only to priests and monks, but also to kings like Louis IX of France, whose piety, temperance, justice and zeal against heathens and heretics earned him the distinction of sainthood.
Behind some hoarding erected in the 1970s workers found a former Lockhart's Cocoa Rooms - a chain of businesses similar to modern-day coffee shops created as part of the Victorian temperance movement to encourage people to drink less alcohol.
Early Free Methodists were active in the temperance and abolitionist movements.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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