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- noun Obsolete form of
temperance .
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Examples
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But beginnyng at his childehode, in the whiche thei reherse his bringing vp, nourtering and scholyng, thei passe to his mannes age, their commending his godlines, his iustice, his temperaunce, and the residewe of his vertues.
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To conclude, their whole life so bounde vpon temperaunce, that it might be thoughte raither to haue bene prescribed them by a discrete Phisicen to preserue helthe, then by a politique Lawyer.
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T, _for_ for temperaunce is best _read_ But temp {er} ate euer {e}
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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T, _for_ for temperaunce is best _read_ But temp {er} ate euer {e}
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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The first of the Knight of the Redcrosse, in whome I expresse holynes: The seconde of Sir Guyon, in whome I sette forth temperaunce: The third of Britomartis, a lady knight, in whome I picture chastity.
Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations Edmund Spenser 1730
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To conclude, their whole life so bounde vpon temperaunce, that it might be thoughte raither to haue bene prescribed them by a discrete Phisicen to preserue helthe, then by a politique Lawyer.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation β Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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But beginnyng at his childehode, in the whiche thei reherse his bringing vp, nourtering and scholyng, thei passe to his mannes age, their commending his godlines, his iustice, his temperaunce, and the residewe of his vertues.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation β Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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ΒΆ Affynes or vertues nigh to Iustice are constancy/lyberalytie/temperaunce.
The Art or Crafte of Rhetoryke Leonard Cox 1528
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