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n. - Immoderation as a consequence of going beyond sufficient or permitted limits.

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  • Adjective : He drank an inordinate amount of wine. ,an inordinate admirer of beauty. ,inordinate hours
  • Therefore it seems that this kind of inordinateness should also have been forbidden by a precept of the Decalogue.
  • Nevertheless such inducement may be affected by a threefold inordinateness.
  • For the inordinateness of anger may be considered in relation to two things.
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