moderatism
Use Moderatism in a sentenceWorld English Dictionary
| moderate | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | not extreme or excessive; within due or reasonable limits: moderate demands |
| 2. | not violent; mild or temperate |
| 3. | of average quality or extent: moderate success |
| —n | |
| 4. | a person who holds moderate views, esp in politics |
| —vb (when intr, | |
| 5. | to become or cause to become less extreme or violent |
| 6. | to preside over a meeting, discussion, etc |
| 7. | (Brit), (NZ) to act as an external moderator of the overall standards and marks for (some types of educational assessment) |
| 8. | physics to slow down (neutrons), esp by using a moderator |
| 9. | (tr) to monitor (the conversations in an on-line chatroom) for bad language, inappropriate content, etc |
| [C14: from Latin moderātus observing moderation, from moderārī to restrain] | |
| 'moderately | |
| —adv | |
| 'moderateness | |
| —n | |
| 'moderatism | |
| —n | |
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| moderatism | |
noun | |
| a political philosophy of avoiding the extremes of left and right by taking a moderate position or course of action [syn: centrism] |
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Moderatism
is always a great word to know.
So is quincunx. Does it mean:
| an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle. |
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
Example sentences from the web
Then he resigned his posts, was accused of moderatism and imprisoned for over a year.
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