Patience vs Temperance - What's the difference?
patience | temperance |
The quality of being patient.
Any of various card games that can be played by one person. Called solitaire in the US. (card game).
Habitual]] moderation in regard to the indulgence of the natural appetites and passions; restrained or moderate indulgence; moderation; as, temperance in eating and drinking; temperance in the indulgence of joy or mirth; specifically, moderation, and sometimes abstinence, in respect to using [[intoxicate, intoxicating liquors.
* 1877 ,
Moderation of passion; patience; calmness; sedateness.
One of the seven heavenly virtues.
(obsolete) State with regard to heat or cold; temperature.
Temperance is a coordinate term of patience.
As nouns the difference between patience and temperance
is that patience is the quality of being patient while temperance is habitual moderation in regard to the indulgence of the natural appetites and passions; restrained or moderate indulgence; moderation; as, temperance in eating and drinking; temperance in the indulgence of joy or mirth; specifically, moderation, and sometimes abstinence, in respect to using intoxicating liquors.As proper nouns the difference between patience and temperance
is that patience is {{given name|female|from=English}} while Temperance is {{given name|female|from=English}}.patience
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* impatienceExternal links
* *See also
*garden patience ----temperance
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* temperaunce (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- On these occasions I have noticed such a dreamy, vacant expression in his eyes, that I might have suspected him of being addicted to the use of some narcotic, had not the temperance and cleanliness of his whole life forbidden such a notion.
- (Shakespeare)
