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noun

Moderation n.

The act of moderating, or of imposing due restraint.

The state or quality of being mmoderate. "In moderation placing all my glory, While Tories call me Whig, and Whigs a Tory."

Calmness of mind; equanimity; as, to bear adversity with moderation. "The calm and judicious moderation of Orange."

pl. The first public examinations for degrees at the University of Oxford; usually contracted to mods.

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"Moderation" Quotes from Famous Books

... expenditure the most spendthrift noble of that reign. 'He always went magnific so good a table in his apartment that few princes were more visited and better served.' His marriage was not calculated to teach him moderation. In his thirty-ninth year the King gave him the hand of Marie Ruthven, who was nearly related to the unhappy Earl of Gowrie. She was his niece, her father having been the scarcely less unhappy younger brother Patrick, a physician, who, apprehended ...

— The Old Masters and Their Pictures - For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art • Sarah Tytler

... and under her happy influence the bookman will sometimes take the pledge, and for him, it is needless to say, there is only one cure. He cannot be a moderate drinker, for there is no possibility of moderation, and if he is to be saved he must become a total abstainer. He must sign the pledge, and the pledge must be made of a solemn character with witnesses, say his poor afflicted wife and some intelligent self-made Philistine. ...

— Books and Bookmen • Ian Maclaren

... to her reading. Of what that was, I am now to give you some idea; and the best will be to reproduce a letter of my own which came first in the budget, and of which (according to an excellent habitude) I have preserved the scroll. It will show, too, the moderation of my part in these affairs, a thing which some have ...

— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition, Vol. XII (of 25) - The Master of Ballantrae • Robert Louis Stevenson

... which was constantly interrupted by the people in the galleries, who applauded with frenzy the speeches of their favourite orators, the deputies of the Mountain, as the bank of seats occupied by the Jacobin members was named, and howled and yelled when the Girondists ventured to advocate moderation or conciliation. ...

— In the Reign of Terror - The Adventures of a Westminster Boy • G. A. Henty

... considerable establishments both in Italy and in the provinces, to acquire the freedom of Rome, to enjoy municipal honors, and to obtain at the same time an exemption from the burdensome and expensive offices of society. The moderation or the contempt of the Romans gave a legal sanction to the form of ecclesiastical police which was instituted by the vanquished sect. The patriarch, who had fixed his residence at Tiberias, was empowered to appoint his subordinate ...

— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 2 • Edward Gibbon

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