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n. - Excess in action and immoderate indulgence of bodily appetites, especially in passion or indulgence; Consumption of alcoholic drinks.

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  • With such prudence of the humors, with God's help, you will keep far away the intemperateness which is the cause of early aging and an early death.
  • And this intemperateness is as much an impediment as once again bringing religious qualifications into elections.
  • However indignant and hotheaded he might appear, his intemperateness could rapidly be defused by humor or kindness.
  • Perhaps we should all be thankful for Scalia's intemperateness, which has had the salutary effect of marginalizing him on the Court.
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