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"ref": "1628, William Prynne, Healthes Sicknesse. Or, a compendious and briefe Discourse; prouing the Drinking, and Pledging of Healthes, to be Sinfull […], London: Augustine Matthews, page 22",
"text": "Who did begin their Feaſtes with Prayers; continue them with Temperance, and Sobrietie; eating no more then would ſuffice their hunger; drinking no more then would quench and ſatisfie their thirſt […]",
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"ref": "2007, Susan Wise Bauer, “The Problem of Succession”, in The History of the Ancient World, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, page 729",
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"text": "Another error, as it seems to me, into which the old reformers fell, was the position that all habitual drunkards were utterly incorrigible, and therefore must be turned adrift and damned without remedy in order that the grace of temperance might abound, to the temperate then, and to all mankind some hundreds of years thereafter.",
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"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "mētìnut",
"sense": "one of seven virtues",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "מתינות"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "ipuk",
"sense": "one of seven virtues",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "איפוק"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "one of seven virtues",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "temperanza"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "one of seven virtues",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "templanza"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "one of seven virtues",
"word": "temperancia"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "Tarot card",
"word": "temperança"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "Tarot card",
"word": "umění"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "Tarot card",
"word": "umírněnost"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "Tarot card",
"word": "gematigheid"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "Tarot card",
"word": "kohtuus"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "Tarot card",
"word": "tempérance"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "Tarot card",
"word": "Mäßigkeit"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "mētìnut",
"sense": "Tarot card",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "מתינות"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "Tarot card",
"word": "megfontoltság"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "Tarot card",
"word": "temperanza"
},
{
"alt": "せっせい",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "sessei",
"sense": "Tarot card",
"word": "節制"
},
{
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "jeolje",
"sense": "Tarot card",
"word": "절제"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "Tarot card",
"word": "umiarkowanie"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "Tarot card",
"word": "powściągliwość"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "Tarot card",
"word": "temperança"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "Tarot card",
"word": "templanza"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "Tarot card",
"word": "temperancia"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Temperance (virtue)"
],
"word": "temperance"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-30 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (210104c and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
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