NOUN
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exhibiting restraint imposed on the self
an effective temperateness in debate - moderate weather; suitable for outdoor activities
How To Use temperateness In A Sentence
- The choice we make for ourselves must be made with a moderation of counsel and a temperateness for judgement befitting our character and our motives as a nation.
- He wrote with temperateness, and in pitying love of human nature, in the instinctive hope of helping it to know and redeem itself.
- an effective temperateness in debate
- The choice we make for ourselves must be made with a moderation of counsel and temperateness of judgment befitting our character and our motives as a nation.
- Is the educated, temperate public right to wonder about the temperateness of many educators?
- After I had drunk half a dozen glasses, my policy of temperateness in mind, I decided that I had had enough for that time.
- Three reporters from Arizona, on the condition of anonymity, also let me in on another incident involving McCain's intemperateness. Gallup: Obama Leads Hillary By Ten Points, Narrowly Edging McCain
- It needs someone with Senator Obama's understanding, temperateness, deliberativeness, maturity, compassion, toughness, and faith, to help us rebuild our house once again. Bruce Springsteen: From the Stage at the Vote For Change Rally in Philadelphia
- Perhaps we should all be thankful for Scalia's intemperateness, which has had the salutary effect of marginalizing him on the Court. Adam Winkler: Justice Scalia & the Coarsening of American Culture
- When it is considered that there is no public-house in all the island and that seven thousand souls dwell therein, some idea may be gained of the temperateness of the community. SAMUEL