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"ref": "1928, Franklin D. Roosevelt, The Happy Warrior Alfred E. Smith, Houghton Mifflin, →OCLC, →OL, page 13",
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"sense": "a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting",
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"sense": "a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting",
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"word": "气质"
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"sense": "a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting",
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"sense": "a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting",
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"sense": "a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting",
"word": "脾氣"
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"roman": "píqi",
"sense": "a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting",
"word": "脾气"
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"word": "animagordo"
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"sense": "a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting",
"word": "luonne"
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"sense": "a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting",
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"sense": "a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting",
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"sense": "a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting",
"tags": [
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"word": "Veranlagung"
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"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "mézeg",
"sense": "a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "מֶזֶג"
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"roman": "svabhāv",
"sense": "a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "स्वभाव"
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"sense": "a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting",
"tags": [
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"sense": "a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting",
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"word": "carattere"
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"alt": "きしつ",
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"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kishitsu",
"sense": "a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting",
"word": "気質"
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"alt": "きしょう",
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"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "kishō",
"sense": "a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting",
"word": "気性"
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"alt": "せいかく",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "seikaku",
"sense": "a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting",
"word": "性格"
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"roman": "qyzuqandylyq",
"sense": "a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting",
"word": "қызуқандылық"
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"alt": "氣質",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "gijil",
"sense": "a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting",
"word": "기질"
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"alt": "性格",
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"roman": "seonggyeok",
"sense": "a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting",
"word": "성격"
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"sense": "a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting",
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"sense": "a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting",
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"code": "ota",
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"roman": "damar",
"sense": "a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting",
"word": "طمر"
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"roman": "ʿırk",
"sense": "a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting",
"word": "عرق"
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"_dis1": "83 1 3 6 3 5",
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"roman": "tabʼ",
"sense": "a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting",
"word": "طبع"
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"_dis1": "83 1 3 6 3 5",
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"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "xu",
"sense": "a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting",
"word": "خو"
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"sense": "a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"sense": "a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "índole"
},
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"_dis1": "83 1 3 6 3 5",
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"sense": "a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting",
"tags": [
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"word": "temperament"
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"_dis1": "83 1 3 6 3 5",
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"roman": "temperáment",
"sense": "a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
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"roman": "xarákter",
"sense": "a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "хара́ктер"
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"word": "нрав"
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"sense": "a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "nàdar"
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"word": "temperamento"
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"sense": "a person's normal manner of thinking, behaving or reacting",
"word": "พื้นอารมณ์แต่กำเนิด"
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"sense": "a tendency to become irritable or angry",
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"sense": "a tendency to become irritable or angry",
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"sense": "a tendency to become irritable or angry",
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"word": "temperament"
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"sense": "a tendency to become irritable or angry",
"word": "temperamentti"
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"sense": "a tendency to become irritable or angry",
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"tags": [
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"word": "temperamento"
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"sense": "the altering of certain intervals from their correct values in order to improve the moving from key to key",
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"word": "temperatura"
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"sense": "the altering of certain intervals from their correct values in order to improve the moving from key to key",
"tags": [
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"word": "temperament"
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"word": "temperointi"
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"word": "viritys"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "the altering of certain intervals from their correct values in order to improve the moving from key to key",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "Stimmung"
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"(psychology) Individual differences in behavior that are biologically based and are relatively independent of learning, system of values and attitudes."
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"code": "fi",
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{
"ref": "1624, John Donne, Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, Meditation XVIII., in The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne, ed. Charles M. Coffin, New York: Modern Library (1952), pp. 442-444",
"text": "If I will aske meere Philosophers, what the soule is, I shall finde amongst them, that will tell me, it is nothing, but the temperament and harmony, and just and equall composition of the Elements in the body, which produces all those faculties which we ascribe to the soule […]"
}
],
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"A moderate and proportionable mixture of elements or ingredients in a compound; the condition in which elements are mixed in their proper proportions."
],
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"word": "temperatura"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "the altering of certain intervals from their correct values in order to improve the moving from key to key",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "temperament"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "the altering of certain intervals from their correct values in order to improve the moving from key to key",
"word": "temperointi"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "the altering of certain intervals from their correct values in order to improve the moving from key to key",
"word": "viritys"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "the altering of certain intervals from their correct values in order to improve the moving from key to key",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Stimmung"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "the altering of certain intervals from their correct values in order to improve the moving from key to key",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "réiteacht"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "psychology",
"word": "temperamentti"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"temperament"
],
"word": "temperament"
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/2013",
"msg": "more than one value in \"roman\": khì-chit vs. zh-min-nan",
"path": [
"temperament"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "temperament",
"trace": ""
}
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