the quality of being intemperate
consumption of alcoholic drinks
excess in action and immoderate indulgence of bodily appetites, especially in passion or indulgence
"the intemperance of their language"
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intemperance
All learned, and all drunk! [ Cowper ]
It is as much intemperance to [ weep too much as to laugh too much. [Proverb ]
Purged from drugs of foul intemperance. [ Spenser ]
Allow not nature more than nature needs. [ William Shakespeare ]
Intemperance is a great decayer of beauty. [ Junius ]
Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune. [ Garibaldi ]
Gloriously drunk, obey the important call. [ Cowper ]
The smaller the drink, the clearer the head. [ William Penn ]
Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness. [ Seneca ]
Intemperance weaves the windingsheet of souls. [ John B. Gough ]
In our world, death deputes intemperance to do the work of age. [ Young ]
Every inordinate cup is unblessed, and the ingredient is a devil. [ William Shakespeare ]
Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking. [ Walter Scott ]
Sweet fellowship in shame! One drunkard loves another of the name. [ William Shakespeare ]
A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age. [ Cicero ]
O, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! [ William Shakespeare ]
He that tempts me to drink beyond my measure, civilly invites me to a fever. [ Jeremy Taylor ]
The axe of intemperance has lopped off his green boughs and left him a withered trunk. [ Swift ]
The use of wine must inevitably be a steppingstone to that of stronger drinks and to intemperance. [ J. C Holbrook, D.D ]
Other vices make their own way; this makes way for all vices. He that is a drunkard is qualified for all vice. [ Francis Quarles ]
O Music! how it grieves me that imprudence, intemperance, gluttony, should open their channels into thy sacred stream. [ Landor ]
Men cannot labor on always. They must have intervals of relaxation. They cannot sleep through these interTafs. What are they to do? Why, if they do not work or sleep, they must have recreation. And if they have not recreation from healthful sources, they will be very likely to take it from the poisoned fountains of intemperance. Or, if they have pleasures, which, though innocent, are forbidden by the maxims of public morality, their very pleasures are liable to become poisoned fountains. [ Orville Dewey ]
intemperancein Scrabble®
The word intemperance is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.
intemperance:
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intemperancein Words With Friends™
The word intemperance is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required. Because it is longer than 7 letters, you would have to play off an existing word or do it in several moves.
intemperance:
ancient, arenite, campier, cannier, canteen, cantrip, carmine, catenin, certain, cremate, eminent, emirate, emptier, enamine, enteric, enticer, entrain, epicene, inepter, matinee, meatier, meatpie, minaret, naptime, nematic, nitrene, pacemen, painter, peatier, pemican, penance, penname, pentane, pentene, percent, pertain, picante, picrate, pinnate, precent, preemie, premeet, preteen, primate, raiment, receipt, reenact, remnant, repaint, tapemen, teenier, tempera, terpene, terpine, trainee, triaene
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