Meanings
nounimmoderancy (uncountable)
- obsoleteuncountableLack 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 justice
1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC
Origin
- Latinimmoderantia
- Englishimmoderancy
Latin immoderantia.
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immoderancy. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/immoderancy
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