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Definition of Immoderacy
1. n. Immoderateness.
Definition of Immoderacy
1. Noun. The quality of being immoderate. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Immoderacy
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Immoderacy
Literary usage of Immoderacy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and by Sir Thomas Browne, James Thomas Fields (1862)
"Even in our sensual days, the strength of delight is in its seldom- ness or
rarity, and sting in its satiety; mediocrity is its life, and immoderacy its ..."
2. Collections by Massachusetts Historical Society (1871)
"... immoderacy in those sports sheweth, when store of game falleth owt, y* by
Michell ye store of that yeere is spent & gone. 7. Many, vnder ye pretence of ..."
3. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson (1828)
"immoderacy, (im-mod'-er-a-se) n. «. to be mingled. Excess.
IMMODERATE, (im-n^d'-der-ate) a. Excessive ; exceeding the due mean. ..."
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