Temperancename

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  A female given name from English.

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  human-sciencesmysticismphilosophyThe fourteenth trump or major arcana card in most traditional Tarot decks.

temperancenoun/ˈtɛmpəɹəns/

• 1

  Habitual moderation in regard to the indulgence of the natural appetites and passions; restrained or moderate indulgence.

  • temperance in eating and drinking
  • temperance in the indulgence of joy
• 2

  Moderation, and sometimes abstinence, in respect to using intoxicating liquors.

  • Another error, as it seems to me, into which the old reformers fell, was the position that all habitual drunkards were utterly incorrigible, and therefore must be turned adrift and damned without remedy in order that the grace of temperance might abound, to the temperate then, and to all mankind some hundreds of years thereafter.
  • So now the frauds reckoned they was out of danger, and they begun to work the villages again. ¶ First they done a lecture on temperance; but they didn't make enough for them both to get drunk on.
• 3

  Moderation of passion; calmness.

  • […] in the verie Torrent, Tempeſt, and (as I may ſay) the Whirle-winde of Paſſion, you muſt acquire and beget a Temperance that may giue it Smoothneſſe.
  • Enough, you stand a traitor by my hearth, / And yet I draw not! Sir, I cannot pledge / This temperance long; the path of safety’s there.
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  obsoleteState with regard to heat or cold; temperature.

  • It [the climate] must needs be of subtle, tender, and delicate temperance.