† inˈtemperancy Obs.
[ad. L. intemperāntia: see prec. and -ancy.]
1. = intemperance 1.
| 1540 T. Raynalde Byrth Mankynde ii. vii. (1643) 136 The intemperancie and mutation of the ayre and weather, may be cause of aborcement. 1599 Hakluyt Voy. II. 70 The intemperancy of the scalding ayre in that hot countrey. 1669 Worlidge Syst. Agric. (1681) 44 We cannot pretend to an Intemperancy of Climate for neither Hemp nor Flax. |
2. = intemperance 2.
| 1532 Tindale Wks. (1573) 227 To auoyde..y⊇ great heape of vices that spring of intemperancy. 1555 W. Watreman Fardle Facions ii. iv. 144 A manne ought to be ware of the intemperauncy of women. 1678 Owen Mind of God iii. 93 Immixed with that intemperancy of reviling other men. |
b. = intemperance 2 b.
| 1608 D. T. Ess. Pol. & Mor. 98 b, That for a while, he would beare with the intemperancies of his wife. 1645 Milton Tetrach. Introd., Wks. (1851) 138 Not knowing..why I should be subject..to the intemperancies of this mans preaching choler. 1662 Bp. Hopkins Fun. Serm. (1685) 96 They appeal to reason for their judge, which commonly by their debauches and intemperancies, they..so corrupt that it will not discern the truth. |
3. = intemperance 3. (But always with qualification.)
| 1586 J. Ferne Blaz. Gentrie 128 Their wonderfull excesse and intemperancie in drinking. 1619 R. Harris Drunkard's Cup B b, Intemperancies of this nature. 1620 Venner Via Recta ii. 23 These are..the commodities of wine..that a meane and frugality be had in the vse of it, not intemperancy and drunkennes. |