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Acrasy, Acrasia  n.  Excess; intemperance. (Obs. except in Med.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Acrasy" Quotes from Famous Books



... by sophistry, the laboriously developed mistake of Temperance for the essence of the virtues which it guides. Temperance in the mediaeval systems is generally opposed by Anger, or by Folly, or Gluttony: but her proper opposite is Spenser's Acrasia, the principal enemy of Sir Guyon, at whose gates we find the subordinate vice "Excesse," as the introduction to Intemperance; a graceful and feminine image, necessary to illustrate the more dangerous forms ...
— The Stones of Venice, Volume II (of 3) • John Ruskin



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