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Temper

noun

1.

A sudden outburst of anger. Synonyms: irritation, pique.

2.

A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling. Synonyms: humor, humour, mood. "He was in a bad humor"

3.

A disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger. Synonyms: biliousness, irritability, peevishness, pettishness, snappishness, surliness.

4.

The elasticity and hardness of a metal object; its ability to absorb considerable energy before cracking. Synonym: toughness.

verb

(past & past part. tempered; pres. part. tempering)

1.

Bring to a desired consistency, texture, or hardness by a process of gradually heating and cooling. Synonyms: anneal, normalize.

2.

Harden by reheating and cooling in oil. Synonym: harden.

3.

Adjust the pitch (of pianos).

4.

Make more temperate, acceptable, or suitable by adding something else; moderate. Synonyms: mollify, season.

5.

Restrain. Synonyms: chasten, moderate.

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"Temper" Quotes from Famous Books

... plainly what he thought of it before the servant who was waiting at table. The whole village knew that he was a boche before night; and every morning after that he could read it written up on his front door. Madame Clerambault's temper was not improved by this, and Rosine, who had taken to religion in the disappointment of her young love, was too much occupied with her unhappy soul and its experiences to think of the troubles of others. ...

— Clerambault - The Story Of An Independent Spirit During The War • Rolland, Romain

... and more thick-set the nail phalange is, giving the appearance of a club, the more ungovernable is the person in his or her temper. Such people have no control over themselves and under the least opposition will fly into a blind rage of fury. This curious formation has been called the "Murderer's Thumb" because so many who have committed murder in ...

— Palmistry for All • Cheiro

... presence of the French in Canada, their designs in the west, had thrown America for protection on the mother country. But with the conquest of Canada all need of protection was removed. The attitude of England towards its distant dependency became one of simple possession; and the differences of temper, the commercial and administrative disputes, which had long existed as elements of severance, but had been thrown into the background till now by the higher need for union, started into a new prominence. Day by day indeed the American colonies found it ...

— History of the English People, Volume VII (of 8) - The Revolution, 1683-1760; Modern England, 1760-1767 • John Richard Green

... that he was guided solely by his burghers, who had already petitioned in the matter. 'I would pay more heed,' said Mr. Kruger, 'to a petition from fifty of my burghers than to one from the whole of Johannesburg.' At the conclusion of an unpleasant interview, which called for all the tact and good temper at the command of the gentleman who was interesting himself on behalf of the prisoners, the President added in an offhand manner, 'The petitions can do no harm and might strengthen my hands in dealing with the ...

— The Transvaal from Within - A Private Record of Public Affairs • J. P. Fitzpatrick

... an anomaly if modern literature were inferior to the classical. The ancients, indeed, excel us in the sense for form and symmetry. There is also a freshness in their words, a joyousness in their life, a certain heroic temper in their thinking and acting, which give them power to engage the emotions; and hence to deny them exceptional educational value is to take a partial view. But even though we grant that the study of their literatures is in certain ...

— Education and the Higher Life • J. L. Spalding

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