As a functional disorder of the brain, arising from inordinate mental activity, it has received scarcely any notice.
Debility is almost always accompanied by a disposition to inordinate sleep.
Somnolence is nothing more than an inordinate tendency to sleep.
If they have no ties of family, no affections to take them out of themselves, they become pompous triflers, or despondent recluses, according as their temperaments lead them to inordinate self-importance or excessive humility.
And moreover, but for your inordinate greed of gain, everything would have succeeded admirably; all was going on well when I left Paris.
There are some inordinate desires before which the firmest principles must give way, and which so pervert our moral sense as to render us incapable of judging between right and wrong.
He had been long in prison and penury, on account of his inordinate profuseness.
But art in social relationships will not be realized until a passionate desire for the unlimited expression of creative effort overcomes inordinatedesires of individuals for self-expression.
Nevertheless, the influence of Donna Olimpia was baneful; and she made herself thoroughly detested for her inordinateambition and rapacity.
Robert's opinion was that all women, even St. Elizabeths, have somewhere rooted in them an inordinate partiality for shopping; otherwise why should that operation take four or five mortal days?
Our people have been rash in their investments latterly, and there is always a retribution upon inordinate gain!
Chief among these were the exclusion of the Duke of York from the throne, and the realization of his own inordinate ambition.
Both endured great suspense that night, and next day their excitement was raised to an inordinate pitch by seeing the earl's servant ride towards the castle with all possible speed.
The most trivial matters will upset him, an inordinatecowardice will afflict his mind, and he will frequently behave in a mean and base manner.
He uses this to support his contention that the main driving force behind the Great Persecution was the inordinate economic power of the Buddhist establishments.
This, it would seem, ought to check all the vain and inordinate aspirations of poor, weak man; yet it has not, and probably never will do so.
Dear Mr. Chapman, */ I very earnestly beg you not to take as the measure of the pleasure given me by your letter the inordinate delay of this acknowledgment.
That is the fault of all fictive writing now, it seems to me--that and the inordinate abuse of dialogue--though this but one effect of the not squeezing.
However inordinate in her desires, she was dainty in her ways.
A secret in anybody's possession set her wild to possess it, and she gave no rest to her inordinate curiosity until she had fished it out of even the muddiest waters.
There was no device so bold and inordinate that it daunted her.
In this sentimentality lie the germs of most of the evils which beset the institution in Christendom, and particularly in the United States, where sentiment is always carried to inordinate lengths.
It is as if some great magnifico male, some inordinate czar or kaiser, should step down from the throne to play dominoes with him behind the door.
The knowledge of this truth ought to have delivered Moses from his diffidence and inordinate timidity.
Quite the contrary; but it preserves him from that inordinate anxiety of spirit which can only tend to unfit him for calm, elevated, steady testimony.
Small scorched his thumb in the bowl of his pipe; and Mr. Coates was almost choked, by swallowing an inordinate whiff of vapor.
In several species, though not in all, the males' fore-legs are of inordinate length.
If we take the larva from the cell and place it on a hard substance, to observe it more readily, we see that the inordinate protuberance of the abdomen, by lifting the thorax from the ground, prevents the legs from finding a support.
And as true faith purifies the heart from worldly love; so it does also from inordinate affections, as anger and impatience; planting meekness and patience in respect to our neighbor in their stead.
Hence proceeds that inordinate love which men have for themselves more than for God.
Let a true Christian who denies himself, and a false Christian who is filled with inordinate self-love, be compared together.
Inordinate self-love is begotten of the world, and not of God; it is earthly, and the chief enemy to "the wisdom which is from above.
Covetousness, or an inordinate love of worldly things.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "inordinate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
