Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases

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CLASS VI SECTION IV. 4. MORAL PRACTICE


953. Temperance -- N. temperance, moderation, sobriety, soberness.

954. Intemperance -- N. intemperance; sensuality, animalism, carnality; tragalism † ; pleasure; effeminacy, silkiness; luxury, luxuriousness; lap of pleasure, lap of luxury; free living.

954a. Sensualist -- N. Sybarite, voluptuary, Sardanaphalus, man of pleasure, carpet knight; epicure, epicurean, gourmet, gourmand; pig, hog; votary of Epicurus, swine of Epicurus; sensualist; Heliogabalus; free liver, hard liver; libertine &c 962; hedonist; tragalist † .

955. Asceticism -- N. asceticism, puritanism, sabbatarianism † ; cynicism † , austerity; total abstinence; nephalism † .

956. Fasting -- N. fasting; xerophagy † ; famishment, starvation.

957. Gluttony -- N. gluttony; greed, avarice; greediness &c adj.; voracity.

958. Sobriety -- N. sobriety; teetotalism.

959. Drunkenness -- N. drunkenness &c adj.; intemperance; drinking &c v.; inebriety † , inebriation; ebriety † , ebriosity † ; insobriety; intoxication; temulency † , bibacity † , wine bibbing; comtation † , potation; deep potations, bacchanals, bacchanalia, libations; bender [U.S.] .

960. Purity -- N. purity; decency, decorum, delicacy; continence, chastity, honesty, virtue, modesty, shame; pudicity † , pucelage † , virginity.

961. Impurity -- N. impurity; uncleanness &c (filth) 653; immodesty; grossness &c adj.; indelicacy, indecency; impudicity † ; obscenity, ribaldry, Fescennine, smut, bawdry † , double entente, equivoque [Fr.] .

962. Libertine -- N. libertine; voluptuary &c 954.1; rake, debauchee, loose fish, rip, rakehell † , fast man; intrigant † , gallant, seducer, fornicator, lecher, satyr, goat, whoremonger, paillard † , adulterer, gay deceiver, Lothario, Don Juan, Bluebeard † ; chartered libertine.