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  1. adjective Being within reasonable limits; not excessive or extreme: a moderate price.
  2. adjective Not violent or subject to extremes; mild or calm; temperate: a moderate climate.
  3. adjective Of medium or average quantity or extent.

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  • Read your message again, fully, then think of how you could have sent the same message as a truly "moderate" - perhaps even loving - Catholic Christian. —  National Catholic Reporter
  • As a federal judge, Bell was involved in desegregation rulings in the 1960s, and he became known as a moderate legal voice in the South. —  CNN.com
  • With all the talk about his successor as a moderate, the hapless Abu Mazin can not leave Ramallah without an Israel permit, can not prevent Israeli military from assassinating and kidnapping Palestinian leaders, bombing and killing his own police force in the West Bank, the land theft and colonization, the encirclement of Bethlehem and Qalqelia, the frequent Israeli military incursion into Nablus or the current assault on Hebron Palestinians by paramilitary Jewish settlers. —  Palestine Blogs aggregator
  • Her party forms part of the centre-left Patriotic Alliance for Change, whose candidate was current President Fernando Lugo, a former Catholic bishop and social activist described as a moderate leftist who took office in August 2008. —  IPS Inter Press Service
  • "So she is called a moderate, because in Europe, the term right-wing means violent." —  Gates of Vienna
 

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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English moderat, from Latin moderātus, past participle of moderārī, to moderate; see med- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin moderates, past participle of moderare (later ult. English moder), regulate, restrain, moderate, from moder-, modes-, a stem appearing also in modestus, moderate, discreet, modest, from modus, measure: see mode and modest.
  2. from Latin moderatus (later Italian moderato = Spanish Portuguese moderado = French modéré), past participle of moderare, regulate: see moderate, v.
 

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