English
immoderancy
Immoderancy comes from Latin immoderantia.
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEimmoderantia
- Englishearliest quotation 1650immoderancy
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEimmoderantia
- Englishearliest quotation 1650immoderancy
Earliest quotation: 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […]: “He despaired of God's mercy in the same fact,…”
Every English word from Latin immoderantia
Today it means
noun Lack of moderation; excess.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Latin immoderantia / immoderancy