What's the difference between teetotal and temperance?

Teetotal


Definition:

  • (a.) Entire; total.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Famously ascetic, teetotal and vegetarian, he meditates, practises yoga and shuns the trappings of office.
  • (2) The Liberals had been the party not of teetotalism (no party led by Asquith could have made such a claim) but of temperance.
  • (3) We're all familiar with the classic noir detective – fresh-faced, clean living and teetotal, with his wholesome family life and penchant for golf and the Sunday roast … oh, wait a minute.
  • (4) On the poop deck of a party boat puttering slowly out into the Adriatic stands a gently balding and teetotal Canadian in studious specs and sandals.
  • (5) Apparently, he used to be straight-edge: "hyper-moral", as he puts it, teetotal, vegan.
  • (6) Goertz has cited Trump’s lifelong teetotalism as securing her vote.
  • (7) It is difficult to imagine that the team Adams broke into (which contained Charlie Nicholas, Kenny Sansom and several other players who were not, it is probably fair to say, teetotal bibliophiles) would have been terribly sympathetic to the character that has emerged since his treatment for alcohol addiction four years ago.
  • (8) Flaubert was a disappointed romantic who embraced realism like a drinker embraces teetotalism: his "realism" was less a social exposure than a quasi-scientific exactitude, peeling away everything that was not "true": "Poetry," he claimed, "is as precise as geometry."
  • (9) Teetotal Trump, according to Bloomberg journalists who by chance found themselves on the next table , celebrated with a virgin Bloody Mary and a $36 (£29) burger and fries.
  • (10) Not far away Stephen Edau, 19, head boy and teetotal father of two, dreams of becoming a doctor but wishes his mother would give up making the hooch that helps pay for his education.
  • (11) But once or twice he may have regretted his decision to go teetotal.
  • (12) Jimmy Carter , the teetotal former president of the United States, has hailed an award of money that helps secure the legacy of one of his heroes – the wildly alcoholic genius Dylan Thomas.
  • (13) The MPs were given the impression that Cameron was going out of his way to lay on the charm by allowing his children to play among the guests as drinks, including non-alcoholic ones for the teetotal drinkers, were served.
  • (14) Or it appears,” he corrects himself, “they are a bunch of crooks.” When the pair attended a meeting in February, Dyke had been teetotal since New Year’s Day.
  • (15) Additionally, 8 male patients with chronic alcoholism (group II) who were normolipemic under alcohol abuse, and 7 male patients (group II) who had also produced type-V HLP under chronic alcohol abuse, but were teetotal since at least 6 months, were investigated.
  • (16) At a rate that suggests I need to go teetotal for the remainder of my days.
  • (17) In the French tradition, that's about as much as we know of her private life, apart from the fact that she is teetotal, vegetarian and a fanatical swimmer who will stay only in hotels that have pools.
  • (18) The pre-prom pre-load Brave parents who can afford it may offer a pre-prom get-together for their son or daughter's friends, as well as their parents, providing lots of photo opportunites (under a tasteful balloon arch, naturally) plus the chance for 16-year-olds to discreetly preload a bit of alcohol before the strictly teetotal prom.
  • (19) Some months before, a sign that not all was well with the guitarist (who in those days coped with the pressures by drinking heavily, unlike the teetotal, running-and-white-tea regime he adopts now) came when he drove his car into a wall and was lucky to escape alive.
  • (20) The typical image of a yoga teacher is a vegan, teetotal Buddhist, but I'm partial to a kebab after the pub.

Temperance


Definition:

  • (v. t.) Habitual moderation in regard to the indulgence of the natural appetites and passions; restrained or moderate indulgence; moderation; as, temperance in eating and drinking; temperance in the indulgence of joy or mirth; specifically, moderation, and sometimes abstinence, in respect to using intoxicating liquors.
  • (v. t.) Moderation of passion; patience; calmness; sedateness.
  • (v. t.) State with regard to heat or cold; temperature.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To become president of Afghanistan , Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai changed his wardrobe and modified his name, gave up coffee, embraced a man he once denounced as a “known killer” and even toyed with anger management classes to tame a notorious temper.
  • (2) No definite relationship could be established between the biochemical reactions and the flagellar antigens of the lysogenic strain and its temperate phage though some temperate phages released by E. coli O119:B14 strains with certain flagellar antigens did give specific lytic patterns and were serologically identical.
  • (3) It begins with the origins of treatment in the self-help temperance movement of the 1830s and 1840s and the founding of the first inebriate homes, tracing in the United States the transformation of these small, private, spiritually inclined programs into the medically dominated, quasipublic inebriate asylums of the late 19th century.
  • (4) A temperate phage was induced from exponential phase cells of Erwinia herbicola Y46 by treatment with mitomycin C. The phage was purified by single plaque isolation, and produced in bulk by successive cultivation in young cultures of E. herbicola Y 178.
  • (5) A truncated form of the HBL murein hydrolase, encoded by the temperate bacteriophage HB-3, was cloned in a pUC-derivative and translated in Escherichia coli using AUC as start codon, as confirmed by biochemical, immunological, and N-terminal analyses.
  • (6) Group II (21%) included virulent and temperate phages with small isometric heads.
  • (7) Diagnostic methods which reveal only the presence or absence of Ostertagia in grazing animals are of little importance since all will acquire some degree of infection when grazed in the temperate regions of the world.
  • (8) Recently, methods have been developed to distinguish between human and animal faecal pollution in temperate climates.
  • (9) The recent enthusiasm for the combined Collis-Belsey operation should be tempered by continued, cautious, objective assessment of its long-term results.
  • (10) These differences in susceptibility are due, in part, to immunity imposed by temperate phages carried by the different strains.
  • (11) Therefore, production of turimycin is not controlled by the isolated temperate phage.
  • (12) On at least three independent occasions a 1.6 kb segment of Streptomyces coelicolor DNA was detected in apparently the same location in an attP-deleted derivative of the temperate phage phiC31 that carried a selectable viomycin resistance gene.
  • (13) These results indicated that gender tempers the effect of family type on adolescent adjustment.
  • (14) However, its use must be tempered with an appreciation of the limitations of the new technique and knowledge of the circumstances in which it may yield erroneous results.
  • (15) The infection of Bacillus thuringiensis, B. cereus, B. mesentericus and B. polymyxa strains with temperate E. coli bacteriophage Mu cts62 integrated into plasmid RP4 under conditions of conjugative transfer is shown possible.
  • (16) As newer techniques are developed, it is mandatory that the application of these techniques be tempered with controlled clinical trials, documenting their effectiveness.
  • (17) Such lesions are quite common in subtropical and tropical climates, and a review of the literature indicates that the incidence of this formerly rare entity is increasing in temperate climates.
  • (18) Calculated values of residual compressive stress for tempered specimens were considerably higher than those for specimens that were slowly cooled and those that were cooled by free convection.
  • (19) Three sedentary men underwent a 3-mo period of endurance training in a temperate climate, (dry bulb temperature (Tdb): 18 degrees C) and had their sweating sensitivity measured before and after the training period.
  • (20) This level of susceptibility is higher than that found in most temperate countries and mainland populations, and similar to descriptions in a few island and rural populations in the tropics.