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What does Temperance mean?

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Proper noun
  1. A female given name.
  2. (tarot) The fourteenth trump or major arcana card in most traditional Tarot decks.
Name
  1. A female given name of Latin origin.
    1. (meaning, history) Moderate.
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It was formed in 1901 as part of the Temperance Movement a series of Victorian religious and political pressure groups advocating teetotalism.
In this last aspect, however, habitual temperance will generally be found to be much more beneficial than occasional fasting.
The rhetoric combined the moral style of bourgeois temperance advocacy with an emphasis on alcohol's impact on the man and the family.
Temperance crusaders understood the societal problems that caused alcoholism.
Temperance in diet and exercise, with frequent washing and bathing, are the best means of preserving a healthful countenance.
In the 1830s, a third movement, the teetotal movement, emerged and radicalized temperance reform in two ways.

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