moderation

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  1. The act of moderating or restraining; the process of tempering, lessening, or mitigating. And what is all virtue but a moderation of excesses? South, Sermons, VI. 1.
  2. The state or quality of being moderate or keeping a due mean between opposite extremes; freedom from excess; temperance; due restraint. “Moderation is a good mean, though men desire a great deal.” “Mesure is a mery mene” was a proverb, and is quoted by Skelton in his “Magnificence,” l. 385. Richard the Redeless, Notes, p. 293. Let your moderation be known unto all men. Phil. iv. 5. Pand. Be moderate, be moderate. Cres. Why tell you me of moderation? Shak., T. and C., iv. 4. 2. The winds, that never moderation knew, Afraid to blow too much, too faintly blew. Dryden, Astræa Redux, l. 242.
  3. Habitual slowness of thought, speech, or action; great deliberation. [Colloquial]
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  • The Million Women Study states that middle-aged women who drink in moderation, which is considered a drink a day, have a higher risk of liver, rectal and specifically breast cancer. —  News/local from www.dailyamerican.com
  • I mean moderation is there, but it's usually post-moderation meaning the really offensive comments are taken out only after damages are already done. —  Web 2.0 Asia
  • Some people can't seem to grasp the idea of moderation, and to some moderation is still too much. —  GamePolitics News
  • If your comment is deleted or thrown into moderation, that is the reason. —  Buffalo Pundit
  • This 'romantic' had something classic in his moderation, a moderation which becomes at times as terrifying as Poe's logic. —  Figures of Several Centuries
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  1. from Old French moderation, French modération = Spanish moderacion = Portuguese moderação = Italian moderazione, from Latin moderatio(n-), moderating, from moderare, past participle moderatus, moderate: see moderate, v.
 

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