name
Meaning 1
A female given name from English.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
temperance
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈtɛmpəɹəns/
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CMU ARPABET: T EH1 M P ER0 AH0 N S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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name
Meaning 2
The fourteenth trump or major arcana card in most traditional Tarot decks.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, mysticism, philosophy, sciences, tarot
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noun
Meaning 3
Habitual moderation in regard to the indulgence of the natural appetites and passions; restrained or moderate indulgence.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- temperance in eating and drinking
- temperance in the indulgence of joy
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noun
Meaning 4
Moderation, and sometimes abstinence, in respect to using intoxicating liquors.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 5
Moderation of passion; calmness.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: patience, calmness, sedateness
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 6
State with regard to heat or cold; temperature.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 7
the act of tempering
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: combination, combining, compounding
noun
Meaning 8
abstaining from excess
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: sobriety
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: abstinence
noun
Meaning 9
the trait of avoiding excesses
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: moderation
Antonyms: intemperance
Broader terms: natural virtue, restraint, control
Narrower terms: sobriety, dryness, abstemiousness
History
Etymology
From temperance. A virtue name first used by Puritans in the 16th century.
From Anglo-Norman temperance, from Latin temperantia (“moderation, sobriety, discretion, self-control”), from temperans, present participle of temperare (“to moderate”). See temper. English equivalent temper + -ance.
Across languages
Translations
80 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: умереност (umerenost) — habitual moderation
- Catalan: temprança — habitual moderation
- Chinese Mandarin: 戒酒 (jièjiǔ) — habitual moderation
- Czech: střídmost — habitual moderation
- Czech: umírněnost — habitual moderation
- Czech: zdrženlivost — habitual moderation
- Danish: mådehold — habitual moderation
- Dutch: matiging — habitual moderation
- Finnish: kohtuus — habitual moderation
- Finnish: itsehillintä — habitual moderation
- Finnish: raittius — habitual moderation
- French: sobriété — habitual moderation
- Galician: tempero — habitual moderation
- German: Mäßigung — habitual moderation
- Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐌷𐍉𐌱𐌰𐌹𐌽𐍃 (gahōbains) — habitual moderation
- Ancient Greek: σωφροσύνη (sōphrosúnē) — habitual moderation
- Hebrew: מתינות (mētìnut) — habitual moderation
- Japanese: 節制 (sessei) — habitual moderation
- Japanese: 禁酒 (kinshu) — habitual moderation
- Latin: temperantia — habitual moderation
- Latin: sōbrietās — habitual moderation
- Norwegian: måtehald — habitual moderation
- Norwegian: hóv — habitual moderation
- Romanian: sobrietate — habitual moderation
- Romanian: cumpătare — habitual moderation
- Russian: уме́ренность (umérennostʹ) — habitual moderation
- Russian: сде́ржанность (sdéržannostʹ) — habitual moderation
- Russian: тре́звенность (trézvennostʹ) — habitual moderation
- Spanish: templanza — habitual moderation
- Spanish: temperancia — habitual moderation
- Ottoman Turkish: اعتدال (i’tidâl) — habitual moderation
- Bulgarian: сдържаност (sdǎržanost) — moderation of passion
- Chinese Mandarin: 節制 /节制 (jiézhì) — moderation of passion
- Czech: zdrženlivost — moderation of passion
- Danish: mådehold — moderation of passion
- Finnish: itsehillintä — moderation of passion
- Finnish: maltti — moderation of passion
- Finnish: tyyneys — moderation of passion
- French: sobriété — moderation of passion
- Galician: sobriedade — moderation of passion
- German: Mäßigung — moderation of passion
- German: Enthaltsamkeit — moderation of passion
- German: Mäßigkeit im Alkoholgenuss — moderation of passion
- German: Temperenz — moderation of passion
- Greek: εγκράτεια (egkráteia) — moderation of passion
- Hebrew: מתינות (mētìnut) — moderation of passion
- Hebrew: התנזרות (hìtnāzrut) — moderation of passion
- Japanese: 節制 (sessei) — moderation of passion
- Spanish: templanza — moderation of passion
- Spanish: temperancia — moderation of passion
- Bulgarian: умереност (umerenost) — one of seven virtues
- Catalan: temprança — one of seven virtues
- Czech: střídmost — one of seven virtues
- Danish: mådehold — one of seven virtues
- Finnish: kohtuullisuus — one of seven virtues
- French: tempérance — one of seven virtues
- Galician: temperanza — one of seven virtues
- Hebrew: מתינות (mētìnut) — one of seven virtues
- Hebrew: איפוק (ipuk) — one of seven virtues
- Italian: temperanza — one of seven virtues
- Spanish: templanza — one of seven virtues
- Spanish: temperancia — one of seven virtues
- Bulgarian: умереност (umerenost) — Tarot card
- Catalan: temperança — Tarot card
- Czech: umění — Tarot card
- Czech: umírněnost — Tarot card
- Dutch: gematigheid — Tarot card
- Finnish: kohtuus — Tarot card
- French: tempérance — Tarot card
- German: Mäßigkeit — Tarot card
- Hebrew: מתינות (mētìnut) — Tarot card
- Hungarian: megfontoltság — Tarot card
- Italian: temperanza — Tarot card
- Japanese: 節制 (sessei) — Tarot card
- Korean: 절제 (jeolje) — Tarot card
- Polish: umiarkowanie — Tarot card
- Polish: powściągliwość — Tarot card
- Portuguese: temperança — Tarot card
- Spanish: templanza — Tarot card
- Spanish: temperancia — Tarot card
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