His intemperateness lay in the craving to rise and lead: a precocious ambition.
Beautiful women in her position provoke an intemperateness that contrasts touchingly with the self-restraint of a particular admirer.
The state of being intemperate; excessive indulgence of any appetite or passion; as, intemperateness in eating or drinking.
By unseasonable weather, by intemperateness of the air or meteors.
But this may seem perhaps a sort of intemperateness of delight in knowing everything, and as it were a stream violently bearing down the reasoning faculty.