Hypertext Webster Gateway: "moderation"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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}.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
moderation
n 1: quality of being moderate and avoiding extremes [syn: {moderateness}]
[ant: {immoderation}]
2: a change for the better [syn: {easing}, {relief}]
3: the trait of avoiding excesses [syn: {temperance}] [ant: {intemperance}]
4: the action of lessening in severity or intensity: "the
object being control or moderation of economic
depressions"
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