Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The quality or condition of being extreme or immoderate.
- n. Something extreme or immoderate.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Want of moderation.
Wiktionary
- n. The quality of being immoderate.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. rare Immoderateness.
Examples
“If you want to continue on this path of immoderacy, go ahead, your funeral.”
“My talk with the old Dutchman, and the lies to which I was constrained, had already given me a sense of how my conduct must appear to others; and now, after the strong admiration I had just experienced and the immoderacy with which I had continued my vain purchases, I began to think of it myself as very hazarded.”
“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.”
“My talk with the old Dutchman, and the lies to which I was constrained, had already given me a sense of how my conduct must appear to others; and now, after the strong admiration I had just experienced and the immoderacy with which I had continued my vain purchases, I began to think of it myself as very hasarded.”
“Even in our sensual days, the strength of delight [95] is in its seldomness or rarity, and sting in its satiety: mediocrity is its life, and immoderacy its confusion.”
“By our immoderacy we take his work out of his hand.”
The Art of Divine Contentment: An Exposition of Philippians 4:11
“Once a cheerleader for Wall Street immoderacy, Summers decried a "system that is based on massive borrowing, intermediated through a bloated financial system, in order to support excessive consumption.”
“The full implications of immoderacy (e.g. deeply sectarian, anti-democracy) attached to the term may not be reflected by genuine fundamentalists (say those that see church state separation as sacred - as do some fundamentalist Christian and Muslim sects for example.”
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