temperance

noun4

1. •
   Habitual moderation in regard to the indulgence of the natural appetites and passions; restrained or moderate indulgence.

   • Who did begin their Feastes with Prayers; continue them with Temperance, and Sobrietie; eating no more then would suffice their hunger; drinking no more then would quench and satisfie their thirst […] — 1628
2. •
   Moderation, and sometimes abstinence, in respect to using intoxicating liquors.

   • So now the frauds reckoned they was out of danger, and they begun to work the villages again. ¶ First they done a lecture on temperance; but they didn't make enough for them both to get drunk on. — 1884
3. •
   Moderation of passion; calmness.

   • […] in the verie Torrent, Tempest, and (as I may say) the Whirle-winde of Passion, you must acquire and beget a Temperance that may giue it Smoothnesse. — 1599
4. •
   (no longer used) State with regard to heat or cold; temperature.

   • It [the climate] must needs be of subtle, tender, and delicate temperance. — 1610