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immoderancy

immoderancy noun: lack of moderation; excess.

Noun

immoderancy (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Lack of moderation; excess.
    • He despaired of God's mercy in the same fact, where this presumed of it; he by a decollation of all hope annihilated his mercy, this by an immoderancy thereof destroyed his justice1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC

Origin of immoderancy

Latin immoderantia.

Questions about immoderancy

What does immoderancy mean?
Immoderancy means lack of moderation; excess.
What part of speech is immoderancy?
Immoderancy is a noun.

Words near immoderancy in the dictionary

  1. immobilizing
  2. immobilon
  3. immoble
  4. immoderacies
  5. immoderacy
  6. immoderancy
  7. immoderate
  8. immoderately
  9. immoderateness
  10. immoderation
  11. immoderations

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