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Moderations

British  
/ ˌmɒdəˈreɪʃənz /

plural noun

  1. short for Honour Moderations

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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He had managed to achieve a second class in Moderations, and he had now in view a term of cricket whose energy might fortunately be crowned with a blue.

From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by Compton MacKenzie

In 1881, another Board School boy, having received the Greek and Latin certificate from the Universities Examining Board won a classical scholarship at St John’s, Oxford, and afterwards a First Class in Classical Moderations.

From Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country by T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet) Escott

Some Lapps advance to a kind of mystic Moderations, and the great sorcerers attain to Final Schools, and are Bachelors in Black Arts. 

From Cock Lane and Common-Sense by Andrew Lang

In 1876 he took a First Class in Classical Moderations, always a sufficient proof of sound learning, and, in 1878, he took a First Class in Literae Humaniores.

From Oscar Wilde A Critical Study by Arthur Ransome

With my first in Moderations I might find some post as an usher in a small school.

From The Ship of Stars by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

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