Definitions for moderation

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moderation mod·er·a·tion

Spelling: [mod-uh-rey-shuh n]

IPA: /ˌmɒd əˈreɪ ʃən/

Moderation is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 1003 anagrams from letters in moderation (adeimnoort).

Definitions for moderation

noun

1. the quality of being moderate; restraint; avoidance of extremes or excesses; temperance.
2. the act of moderating.
3. moderations, British. the first public examinations at Oxford University for the B.A. degree in mathematics or in classics.

Idioms

1. in moderation, without excess; moderately; temperately:

Origin of moderation

1375-1425; late Middle English moderacion Latin moderātiōn- (stem of moderātiō). See moderate, -ion

Examples for moderation

moderation is the languor and sloth of the soul, Ambition its activity and heat.

A person who escapes the evils of moderation by committing dyspepsia.

But all the same, there had to be moderation and reason in everything.

I wonder if Rube's first wife's mother has come from moderation?

“I have chosen a ‘middle-ground’ method of moderation, a sort of behind-the-scenes prodding,” he wrote in a posting.

Given that Begich, Hagan, Landrieu and Pryor each hail from states that went for Mitt Romney, moderation is a matter of survival.

This would, of course, require some moderation of regulatory standards, particularly in reference to climate change.

Thus it seems likely that instead of striking a new tone of moderation, the new GOP Congress will return to its old tricks.

Maybe the key, as with so many other foods, lies in consuming artificially sweetened goods in moderation.

Lady St. Craye also thought it a useful thing—in moderation.