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Temperance is a primarily feminine given name, usually given in reference to the virtue of moderation. Temperance was among the virtue names in regular use by Puritan families in the 1500s and 1600s. [ 1 ]
Virtue names, also known as grace names, are used as personal names in a number of cultures. They express virtues that the parents wish their child to embody or be associated with.
Temperance was born about 1617 in Virginia, as is found living at Jordan's Journey in the household of Cecily Jordan in the 1624/25 Jamestown Muster. [3] [4] Temperance married between the age of 13 and 14 John Browne with whom she had children. [5] Richard Cocke and Temperance had two known sons, Thomas and Richard. Also a daughter Elizabeth.
According to historian Daniel Walker Howe (What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815–1848, 2007) the term was derived from the practice of American preacher and temperance advocate Lyman Beecher. He would take names at his meetings of people who pledged alcoholic temperance and noted those who pledged total abstinence with a T.
Aristotle restricts the sphere of temperance to bodily pleasures, and defines temperance as "a mean with regard to pleasures," [3]: III.10 distinct from self-indulgence. Like courage, temperance is a virtue concerning our discipline of "the irrational parts of our nature" (fear, in the case of courage; desire, in the case of temperance). [3]:
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Temperance Flowerdew, Lady Yeardley (b. 1587 – d. 1628 ) [ 3 ] [ 4 ] was an early settler of the Jamestown Colony and a key member of the Flowerdew family, significant participants in the history of Jamestown.