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Help[Opinions] Re: Temperance, Constance, Patience and Prudence.
in reply to a message by Alisha
I don't like virtue names in general, because I think they saddle kids (consciously or otherwise) with an ideal that they might feel they have to live up to. Most of them also sound very Puritanical to my ears.
That said, my mother-in-law is named Constance (and goes by Connie), so I guess I'm the most conditioned to that one. I don't like the "prudish" sense of Prudence, and Temperance makes me think of the Prohibition era. Patience isn't bad, though, I guess. There's nothing negative about being patient, right? :)
Definitely NMS, and if I had to use them, I'd probably use them as middles.
That said, my mother-in-law is named Constance (and goes by Connie), so I guess I'm the most conditioned to that one. I don't like the "prudish" sense of Prudence, and Temperance makes me think of the Prohibition era. Patience isn't bad, though, I guess. There's nothing negative about being patient, right? :)
Definitely NMS, and if I had to use them, I'd probably use them as middles.
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