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1
an avoidance of extremes in one's actions, beliefs, or habits
- my father attributes his ripe old age to temperance in all things, especially eating and drinking
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2
voluntary restraint in the satisfaction of one's appetites
- practices a blue-blooded temperance that his parvenu neighbors will never understand
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The first known use of temperance was in the 14th century
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