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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Intemperance \In*tem"per*ance\, noun [F. intemp['e]rance, L. intemperantia. See {In-} not, and {Temperance}.]
1. The act of becoming, or state of being, intemperate; excess in any kind of action or indulgence; any immoderate indulgence of the appetites or passions.
God is in every creature; be cruel toward none, neither abuse any by intemperance. --Jer. Taylor.
Some, as thou sawest, by violent stroke shall die, By fire, flood, famine, by intemperance more In meats and drinks. --Milton.
2. Specifically: Habitual or excessive indulgence in alcoholic liquors.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
intemperance
noun
1: the quality of being intemperate [ant: {temperance}]
2: consumption of alcoholic drinks [syn: {intemperateness}]
3: immoderate indulgence of bodily appetites [syn: {intemperateness}, {self-indulgence}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
118 Moby Thesaurus words for "intemperance": Bacchus, Dionysus, abandon, abandonment, bacchanalianism, bibaciousness, bibacity, bibulosity, bibulousness, boundlessness, carpe diem, conspicuous consumption, crapulence, crapulency, crapulousness, debauchery, dissipation, drunkenness, edacity, egregiousness, enormousness, exaggeration, excess, excessiveness, exorbitance, exorbitancy, extravagance, extravagancy, extreme, extremes, extremism, extremity, fabulousness, giantism, gigantism, gluttonousness, gluttony, greed, greediness, gulosity, hoggishness, hyperbole, hyperphagia, hypertrophy, immoderacy, immoderateness, immoderation, incontinence, indiscipline, inordinacy, inordinance, inordinateness, insatiability, insobriety, intemperateness, irrepressibility, lavishness, laxness, leaking purse, licentiousness, loose purse strings, monstrousness, nimiety, noncoercion, nonintimidation, omnivorousness, outrageousness, overdevelopment, overeating, overgenerosity, overgenerousness, overgreatness, overgrowth, overindulgence, overlargeness, overliberality, overmuch, overmuchness, permissiveness, piggishness, polyphagia, pound-foolishness, prodigality, profligacy, profuseness, profusion, radicalism, rapacity, ravenousness, reckless expenditure, reckless spending, riotousness, serious drinking, sottishness, squandering, squandermania, swinish gluttony, swinishness, too much, too-muchness, unconscionableness, unconstraint, uncontinence, uncontrol, undueness, uninhibitedness, unreasonableness, unreserve, unrestrainedness, unrestraint, unruliness, unstrictness, voraciousness, voracity, wantonness, waste, wastefulness, wildness
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