immoderacy

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English

Noun

immoderacy (countable and uncountable, plural immoderacies)

  1. The quality of being immoderate.
    • c. 1670s (date written), Thomas Brown [i.e., Thomas Browne], “(please specify the section)”, in John Jeffery, editor, Christian Morals, , Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: t the University-Press, for Cornelius Crownfield printer to the University; and are to be sold by Mr. Knapton ; and Mr. Morphew , published 1716, →OCLC:
      Even in our sensual days, the strength of delight is in its seldomness or rarity, and sting in its satiety: mediocrity is its life, and immoderacy its confusion

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