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Moderation definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

MODERA'TION, n. [L. moderatio.] The state of being moderate, or of keeping a due mean between extremes or excess of violence. The General's moderation after victory was more honorable than the victory itself.
In moderation placing all my glory,
While tories call me whig, and whigs a tory.
1. Restraint of violent passions or indulgence of appetite. Eat and drink with moderation; indulge with moderation in pleasures and exercise.
2. Calmness of mind; equanimity; as, to bear prosperity or adversity with moderation.
3. Frugality in expenses.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: quality of being moderate and avoiding extremes [syn: moderation, moderateness] [ant: immoderateness, immoderation]
2: a change for the better [syn: easing, moderation, relief]
3: the trait of avoiding excesses [syn: temperance, moderation] [ant: intemperance]
4: the action of lessening in severity or intensity; "the object being control or moderation of economic depressions" [syn: moderation, mitigation]

Merriam Webster's

noun see moderate II

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 the process or an instance of moderating. 2 the quality of being moderate. 3 Physics the retardation of neutrons by a moderator (see MODERATOR 5). 4 (in pl.) (Moderations) the first public examination in some faculties for the Oxford BA degree. Phrases and idioms: in moderation in a moderate manner or degree. Etymology: ME f. OF f. L moderatio -onis (as MODERATE)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Moderation Mod`er*a"tion, n. [L. moderatio: cf. F. mod['e]ration.] 1. The act of moderating, or of imposing due restraint. 2. The state or quality of being mmoderate. In moderation placing all my glory, While Tories call me Whig, and Whigs a Tory. --Pope. 3. Calmness of mind; equanimity; as, to bear adversity with moderation. The calm and judicious moderation of Orange. --Motley. 4. pl. The first public examinations for degrees at the University of Oxford; -- usually contracted to mods.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. If you say that someone's behaviour shows moderation, you approve of them because they act in a way that you think is reasonable and not extreme. The United Nations Secretary General called on all parties to show moderation. = restraint [approval] • If you say that someone does something such as eat, drink, or smoke in moderation, you mean that they do not eat, smoke, or drink too much or more than is reasonable. Many adults are able to drink in moderation, but others become dependent on alcohol... PHRASE: PHR after v 2. see also moderate

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

mod-er-a'-shun (to epieikes): The word occurs once in the King James Version, Php 4:5.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Temperance, frugality, sobriety, forbearance, restraint. 2. Calmness, coolness, deliberateness, sedateness, mildness, equanimity, composure.

Moby Thesaurus

abnegation, boundary, bounds, center, compromise, confinement, constraint, continence, denial, discipline, fence, forbearance, frugality, golden mean, gravity, half measures, half-and-half measures, halfway measures, happy medium, limit, limitation, mean, measure, medium, middle course, middle ground, middle way, moderateness, neutral ground, nothing in excess, prescription, proscription, qualification, renouncement, renunciation, restrain, restraint, restriction, sedateness, self-control, self-denial, self-discipline, self-mastery, self-restraint, seriousness, sober-mindedness, soberness, sobersidedness, sobersides, sobriety, solemnity, sophrosyne, staidness, temperance, temperateness, via media