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intemperancenoun habitual or excessive drinking of intoxicantsin his harangue on the perils of drink, the prohibitionist claimed that intemperance has always been the number one destroyer of marriages a propensity for extremes in one's actions, beliefs, or habitsthere's a wearisome intemperance in his verbal attacks against any and all who dare to disagree with him excess, excessiveness, exorbitance, immoderacy, immoderation, insobriety, intemperateness, nimiety extravagance, prodigalityextremism, irrationality, radicalism, unreasonableness moderateness, moderation, temperance, temperateness in the 15th century |