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Temperance!

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By about a country mile. I've never really liked Constance, and I've been a Temperance Brennan fan since long before 'Bones' (which I have been watching a lot of recently also :P), so Temperance is the winner for me.
My favourite combo is Sarah Temperance. Because I've never found a nn for Temperance that I like, I've never combo'd it as a fn, but reading your thread I thought of Tansy, which I also love. So:
Temperance Mercy
Temperance Cassandra
Temperance Cate
Temperance Jemima
Temperance Claire (ooh I like this one!)
Temperance Josephine
Temperance Shoshannah

Temperance! I'm far too obcessed with Bones to pick Constance. I like Temperance Jane, I don't know why.

Constance

Not my style really, but both are quite nice... You can always have them as sister... If I were to, they would be

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Temperance Rose and Constance Lily :)

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Constance is more namey though...

This message was edited 10/20/2010, 12:09 AM

Constance. Besides liking the sound of it better and thinking it's namier, I just think the meaning is more dignified and positive. Temperance evokes the potential for excess, more than Constance evokes the potential for inconstance.

This message was edited 10/19/2010, 11:09 PM

I can't imagine a Temperance who liked her name; in fact, I can't imagine a Temperance! So, Constance any time: nice and Mozarty, and a longer pedigree than Temperance - certainly as far as general usage goes.

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I was at school with a Connie who is Constance Clare; her ln also began with C, as does her married ln.

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Constance Eleanor
Constance Flora
Constance Brenda, funnily enough
Constance Gloria

Temperance- but only because of the Bones TV show accociation. I think Constance has a cuter nicname Conni vs Tempy

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Temperance does tend to remind me of temperature

Constance

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I just like it better. It has a more pleasing look and sound. There's the bonus of a Constance being in Redwall, and a short story I read recently used this name for a little girl who can do magic, which seemed perfect.
I've never liked Temperance that much. The beginning sounds like temper, and it just isn't as pleasing as Constance.

Constance

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I've really been liking Constance lately. Constance Amelie?

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Temperance doesn't really appeal to me as a name.

Temperance.

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It's slightly more unusual than Constance and I like the idea of the virtue more than Constance.

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Temperance Eve or Inara Temperance.

Temperance.

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I like the meaning ("restraint") and I love the more Puritan vibe you get with Temperance than you do Constance. What about Constant as a male name?

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Zipporah Temperance
Ana Temperance
Daisy Temperance
Aileen Temperance / Eileen Temperance
Zilda Temperance
Temperance Rhoda* (I really like this one)
Temperance Eve
Temperance Mary
Temperance Adelaide
Temperance Eleanor

Constance

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I think it sounds much prettier! The idea of temperance (i.e. not drinking) is outdated, which makes Constance my pick.

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Constance Amelia
Constance Cordelia
Constance Delilah
Constance Eliza
Constance Annette
Constance Liora
Constance Rebecca
Constance Maria
Constance Georgiana
Constance Chrysanthemum

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Samantha Constance
Aurelia Constance
Willow Constance
Jana Constance
Deirdre Constance
Evelyn Constance
Maya Constance
Abigail Constance
Henrietta Constance
Azalea Constance

I think I'd go with Constance. I loved it when I was around six or seven years old. While Temperance sounds fresher, it has no nicknames. And as far as actual virtues go, constance is more important to me than temperance.

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Also, I like Pie's suggestions of Stanzi and Tansy as nicknames. They're more upbeat than Connie.

Constance by a long shot. I don't know what I would pair it with.

Do I have to choose?

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Temperance just edges it for me, but only just.

Aw, I can't choose. They're both quite strong names. Constance has a quiet sort of strength, and Temperance is a bit more feisty. Constance is definitely more user-friendly, nn-wise: Con is homely, Connie is bouncy, and I suppose at a push you could also have Stanzi or even Tansy, but Temperance would have to be the full thing, I think. Temp or Tempy sounds like you borrowed her, Tempe reminds me of the vegan bean-curd foodstuff, and Tempera would be a) pointless and b) paint.

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I'm fresh out of combo mojo today, but for some reason I'm quite liking Constance Irene. And I had an umpteen-times-great grandmother called Temperance Jane, which is nice enough.

Temperance

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Ever since I started watching Bones, Temperance has really been growing on me.

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It's perhaps more usable as a middle name, but I do like it in either slot.

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Temperance Jane
Catherine Temperance
Emily Temperance
...not getting much of anything combo-wise today though!

I prefer Temperance, but Constance probably sounds more "normal". And you could call her Connie, but what would you call a Temperance? Tempie?
Some combos:

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Temperance Annetta
Temperance Christine
Temperance Mathilda
Constance Marie
Constance Elena
Constance Veronica

This message was edited 10/19/2010, 12:12 PM

Temperance

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I'm generally not a fan of virtue/Puritan names (apart from Hope, Grace, Joy and Faith), but the show Bones has made me love Temperance.

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Temperance Olive
Temperance Chloe
Temperance Zoe
Temperance Paige
Temperance Ariana
Temperance Emilia
Temperance Fiona
Temperance Viola
Temperance Naomi
Temperance Amelie

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Anita Temperance
Sabina Temperance
Delia Temperance
Bryony Temperance
Amalia Temperance
Sofia Temperance
Klara Temperance
Amira Temperance
Una Temperance
Winona Temperance

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I think it works better as a first name.

Constance for a first name, definitely. I love Constance--it reminds me of Constance Bonacieux from "The Three Musketeers."
Temperance is better in as a middle name, I think.

Temperance

Constance

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I adore the name Constance and would consider using it one day. I love the meaning behind it, I love that it sounds so strong and spunky- you wouldn't mess with a Constance. I couldn't imagine a passive, quiet as a mouse Constance. I also like the nn Connie a lot too which is what turns a lot of people off. Connie is the sweet maternal side of Constance. I just imagine this fiery woman who finally settles down to married life with a bunch of kids in the 50s- when she disagrees with her husband and goes all feminist on him, she is Constance. When she nurses her baby to sleep or bakes cakes with her little ones, she is totally Connie.

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One of my great-great-Aunts was Auntie Connie and she was one of my favourite old women when I was a little kid. She was by all accounts as stubborn as a mule, went out and had a career way before her time, put food on the table during the Great Depression for her family when her husband, father and brothers were out of work, could stretch a dollar like no other, and was still going strong at the ripe old age of 94 and would teach me how to dip my cookies in hot tea and then tell me I mustn't tell my grandfather because he thought it to be the height of bad manners. Her full name was Sarah Constance (she hated Sarah).

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Sorry, long explanation of my love of Constance but maybe it will make you love it a little more too :-)

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Temperance is nice too but the meaning isn't the best out of the virtue names IMO.

Constance.

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Temperance just reminds me of tempering chocolate.

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Constance Alice
Constance Abigail
Constance Olivia
Constance Giulietta

Definitely Constance.

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I llike it as first or middle: Marie Constance, Eva Constance, Hania Constance, Viera Constance, Leonie Constance, Leah Constance, Lucie Constance, Petra Constance, Jitka Constance, Misha Constance, Jarka Constance, Zdenka Constance, Jorja Constance, Dasha Constance, Danae Constance, Vlasta Constance, Ela Constance, Mirka Constance, Irini Constance, Olga Constance, Yvette Constance, Adela Constance, Robyn Constance, Iva Constance, Annette Constance, Sonia Constance, Nadja Constance, Emilie Constance, Iška Constance.

I prefer Constance by a mile. I adore the nickname Connie and hate any nicknames for Temperance. And I relate Constance to consistancy and constant love, and temperance with alcohol.

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I like it as the first or middle. I personally would do Mary Constance or Azura Constance or Constance Emily, Constance Ava, Constance Mary, Constance Lilac, Constance Azure...

I prefer Temperance to Constance. Although Constance, of course, started as a Puritan virtue name, it retained popularity a lot longer than most of those names, and now it has a sort of dated mid-twentieth feel to it. Also, I detest the nickname Connie.

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Temperance, on the other hand, has a more seventeenth and eighteenth century feel to it, and I love the nickname Tempe.

They're both excellent! I love how whimsical and unexpected Temperance is, but if we're talking about actual usage I think I'd have to pick Constance because Connie is a cute nn. :)

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My combos with those are:
Ada Temperance
Temperance Channary - love this
Temperance June
Clara Constance
Sarah Constance - and this

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And I'd like to think of more, but I'm starving and it's lunch time! Maybe later today I'll edit with some new ideas.