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5 words match “IMMODERATENESS”

IMMODERATENESS n.
The quality of being immoderate; excess; extravagance. Puller.
EXCESS n.
asure beyond sufficiency, necessity, or duty; that which exceeds what is usual or prover; immoderateness; superfluity; superabundance; extravagance; as, an excess of provisions or of light. To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, . . . Is wasteful and ridiculous excess. Shak. That kil…
IMMODERACY n.
Immoderateness. [R.] Sir T. Browne.
IMMODERANCY n.
Immoderateness; excess. [R.] Sir T. Browne.
INORDINACY n.
The state or quality of being inordinate; excessiveness; immoderateness; as, the inordinacy of love or desire. Jer. Taylor.