moderate
adjective
kept or keeping within reasonable or proper limits; not extreme, excessive, or intense.
moderatism
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a word derived from
moderate.
Example Sentences
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For nothing in the world would I have the most genuine representative and one of the most redoubtable advocates of moderatism, manage to make his unwelcome way into our house.
From Maximina by Armando Palacio Valdés
His name is Danton; his violence is a poor cloak to his odious moderatism, and his base corruption is manifest at last.
From The Gods are Athirst by Emilie Jackson
January 11, 1794, Fouquier-Tinville's prosecuting speech will punish you for your moderatism.
From Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty by Arthur Léon, baron Imbert de Saint-Amand
Another who lived in the eighteenth century, Louis Antoine Hugo, was a member of the Convention, and was executed for moderatism.
From Victor Hugo: His Life and Works by G. Barnett Smith
Thus the Revolution will be stifled in the embraces of hypocritical despotism and intimidated moderatism.
From History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution by H. T. Ryde
