See temper on Wiktionary
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"ref": "c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:",
"text": "A noble temper dost thou show in this;",
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"ref": "1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author’s Great Love of His Native Country. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part IV (A Voyage to the Houyhnhnms), page 262:",
"text": "And it was peculiar in their Temper, that they were fonder of what they could get by Rapine or Stealth at a greater diſtance, than much better Food provided for them at home.",
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"ref": "1749, Henry Fielding, chapter 2, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC, book 4, page 141:",
"text": "[…] when she smiled, the Sweetness of her Temper diffused that Glory over her Countenance, which no Regularity of Features can give.",
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"ref": "1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter IV, in Mansfield Park: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC:",
"text": "I am of a cautious temper, and unwilling to risk my happiness in a hurry.",
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"ref": "1868–1869, Louisa M[ay] Alcott, chapter 26, in Little Women: […], (please specify |part=1 or 2), Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, →OCLC:",
"text": "[…] Amy smiled without bitterness, for she possessed a happy temper and hopeful spirit.",
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"ref": "1928, Virginia Woolf, chapter 2, in Orlando: A Biography, London: The Hogarth Press, →OCLC; republished as Orlando: A Biography (eBook no. 0200331h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, July 2015:",
"text": "[…] it appeared as if to be alone in the great house of his fathers suited his temper.",
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"ref": "1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 1046-1048:",
"text": "Remember with what mild / And gracious temper he both heard and judg’d / Without wrauth or reviling;",
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"ref": "1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC, page 193:",
"text": "[…] I must testify from my Experience, that a Temper of Peace, Thankfulness, Love and Affection, is much more the proper Frame for Prayer than that of Terror and Discomposure;",
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"ref": "1816 June – 1817 April/May (date written), [Mary Shelley], chapter V, in Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. […], volume III, London: […] [Macdonald and Son] for Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor, & Jones, published 1 January 1818, →OCLC:",
"text": "[H]er temper was fluctuating; joy for a few instants shone in her eyes, but it continually gave place to distraction and reverie.",
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"ref": "1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, chapter 29, in The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC:",
"text": "‘You should be careful not to irritate her, James. Her temper has been soured, remember, and ought not to be tried.’",
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"ref": "1950, Nevil Shute, chapter 3, in A Town Like Alice, London: Heinemann, published 1952, page 94:",
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},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛmpə(ɹ)"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "tempre"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "smekčavam",
"sense": "to moderate or control",
"word": "смекчавам"
},
{
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"sense": "to moderate or control",
"word": "temperar"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to moderate or control",
"word": "緩和"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "huǎnhé",
"sense": "to moderate or control",
"word": "缓和"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "to moderate or control",
"word": "matigen"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "to moderate or control",
"word": "moderigi"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "to moderate or control",
"word": "mildigi"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to moderate or control",
"word": "hillitä"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to moderate or control",
"word": "hallita"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to moderate or control",
"word": "temperar"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to moderate or control",
"word": "regular"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to moderate or control",
"word": "mäßigen"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to moderate or control",
"word": "whakamauru"
},
{
"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "to moderate or control",
"word": "metegian"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to moderate or control",
"word": "temperar"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to moderate or control",
"word": "moderar"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to moderate or control",
"word": "regular"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to moderate or control",
"word": "controlar"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to moderate or control",
"word": "tempera"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to moderate or control",
"word": "modera"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to moderate or control",
"word": "regula"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to moderate or control",
"word": "astâmpăra"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "umerjátʹ",
"sense": "to moderate or control",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "умеря́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "uméritʹ",
"sense": "to moderate or control",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "уме́рить"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to moderate or control",
"word": "templar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to moderate or control",
"word": "temperar"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to moderate or control",
"word": "atemperar"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to moderate or control",
"word": "mildra"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to moderate or control",
"word": "dämpa"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "otgrjavam",
"sense": "to strengthen or toughen by heat treatment",
"word": "отгрявам"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "zakaljavam",
"sense": "to strengthen or toughen by heat treatment",
"word": "закалявам"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "huíhuǒ",
"sense": "to strengthen or toughen by heat treatment",
"word": "回火"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to strengthen or toughen by heat treatment",
"word": "淬硬"
},
{
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"sense": "to strengthen or toughen by heat treatment",
"word": "hardi"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to strengthen or toughen by heat treatment",
"word": "päästää"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to strengthen or toughen by heat treatment",
"word": "karkaista"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "to strengthen or toughen by heat treatment",
"word": "recuire"
},
{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to strengthen or toughen by heat treatment",
"word": "temperar"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "libén",
"sense": "to strengthen or toughen by heat treatment",
"word": "לִבֵּן"
},
{
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "niragu",
"sense": "to strengthen or toughen by heat treatment",
"word": "淬ぐ, 焠ぐ"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to strengthen or toughen by heat treatment",
"word": "whakapūioio"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to strengthen or toughen by heat treatment",
"word": "tākakā"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "to strengthen or toughen by heat treatment",
"word": "temperar"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to strengthen or toughen by heat treatment",
"word": "reveni"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to strengthen or toughen by heat treatment",
"word": "căli"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zakaljátʹ",
"sense": "to strengthen or toughen by heat treatment",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "закаля́ть"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "zakalítʹ",
"sense": "to strengthen or toughen by heat treatment",
"tags": [
"perfective"
],
"word": "закали́ть"
},
{
"code": "sh",
"lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
"sense": "to strengthen or toughen by heat treatment",
"word": "prekaliti"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to strengthen or toughen by heat treatment",
"word": "templar"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to strengthen or toughen by heat treatment",
"word": "glödga"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to strengthen or toughen by heat treatment",
"word": "aducera"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "to strengthen or toughen by heat treatment",
"word": "subuhan"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to strengthen or toughen by heat treatment",
"word": "tôi"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to strengthen or toughen by heat treatment",
"word": "luyện"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "to strengthen or toughen by heat treatment",
"word": "tôi luyện"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to sauté spices",
"word": "freesata"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to mix with water to obtain proper consistency",
"word": "揉和"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to mix with water to obtain proper consistency",
"word": "sekoittaa"
},
{
"code": "ro",
"lang": "Romanian",
"sense": "to mix with water to obtain proper consistency",
"word": "amesteca"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "moduliram",
"sense": "music: to adjust a scale",
"word": "модулирам"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "music: to adjust a scale",
"word": "temperoida"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"temper"
],
"word": "temper"
}
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