Temperately Definition

adverb

In a thoughtfully measured or regulated manner, eschewing extremes.

1601 My pulse, as yours, doth temperately keep time,
And makes as healthful music: it is not madness.
That I have utter'd: bring me to the test,
And I the matter will re-word; which madness.
Would gambol from. — Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 4.
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  • It pointed out distinctly and temperately the grounds of the right of punishment, and from these principles deduced certain propositions as to the nature and amount of punishment which should be inflicted for any crime.

  • Luther's friends had been provokingly silent about the Theses; but in April 1518, at the annual chapter of the Augustinian Eremites held at Heidelberg, Luther heard his positions temperately discussed, and found somewhat to his astonishment that his views were not acceptable to all his fellow monks.

  • Mackintosh replied to him temperately in the Vindiciae Gallicae, and Thomas Paine replied to him less temperately but far more trenchantly and more shrewdly in the Rights of Man.

  • The fruits eaten temperately need not make us ashamed of our appetites, nor interrupt the worthiest pursuits.

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