moderation
/ˌmɑdəˈɹeɪʃən/ noun B2- The state or quality of being moderate; avoidance of extremes.
- An instance of moderating: bringing something away from extremes, especially in a beneficial way.
- The process of moderating a discussion. · The moderation of a large online forum can be hard work.
- Usage of neutron moderator to slow down neutrons in a nuclear reactor.
Plural moderations
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The count smiled as if the child bade fair to realize his hopes, while Madame de Villefort reprimanded her son with a gentleness and moderation very far from conveying the least idea of a fault having been committed.
I like babies in moderation, but twins three times in succession is _too much_.
Owing to this change, the worthy shipowner became at that moment—we will not say all powerful, because Morrel was a prudent and rather a timid man, so much so, that many of the most zealous partisans of Bonaparte accused him of “moderation”—but sufficiently influential to make a demand in favor of Dantès.
His attentions to Miss King were now the consequence of views solely and hatefully mercenary; and the mediocrity of her fortune proved no longer the moderation of his wishes, but his eagerness to grasp at anything.
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