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Definition of Temperances
1. temperance [n] - See also: temperance
Lexicographical Neighbors of Temperances
Literary usage of Temperances
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Democracy in America by Alexis de Tocqueville, Henry Reeve (1899)
"... and which solemnly bind themselves to give a constant example of temperances
The great political agitation of the American legislative bodies, ..."
2. Report by Indians Rights Association (1908)
"... and we will shoulder to shoulder fight the great battle for temperances, for
social reform, for stamping out that scourge — called the white scourge in ..."
3. The Century by Bim Sherman (1885)
"... Hopes, temperances, and Prudences. Penelope was the girl whose odd, serious
face had struck Bartley Hubbard in the photograph of the family group Lapham ..."
4. A Journey in the Back Country by Frederick Law Olmsted (1860)
"Much good might be done by the organization of temperances societies." Religion.
Fifteen church edifices, fourteen miles apart, each accommodating one ..."
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