† untemperancen.
Obsolete.
(un- prefix1 6.)
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > lack of moderation or restraint > [noun]
unimetec888
unmethelOE
overdeeda1200
unmetheshipa1250
outragec1325
ragec1330
reveriec1350
delavinessc1380
recolagea1400
dissolutionc1400
superfluityc1405
wantonness1448
intemperancy1532
intemperacy?1541
untemperance?1541
intemperance1547
excess1552
immoderateness1569
intemperateness1571
unbridledness1571
inordinateness1577
untemperateness1578
dissoluteness1580
acrasia1590
acrasy1590
intemperature1602
inordination1615
inordinancya1617
immoderation1640
extravagancy1651
debauch1672
extravagance1676
incontinency1715
extravaganza1754
incontinence1836
unmeasuredness1864
?1541 R. Copland Galen's Fourth Bk. Terapeutyke sig. aiv, in Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens The fyrste maner [of ulcers] haboundeth by the vntemperaunce of the flesshe subiecte.
1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1268 Successors may be taught by their predecessors,..sobrietie by their vntemperance.
1614 A. Gorges tr. Lucan Pharsalia iv. 124 The hazards that ensue,..From the vncertaine motions grew, When then the aires vntemperance drew.
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