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Definition of Attempers
1. attemper [v] - See also: attemper
Lexicographical Neighbors of Attempers
Literary usage of Attempers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of James Arminius, D. D., Formerly Professor of Divinity in the by Jacobus Arminius, James Nichols (1828)
"We call that GENTLENESS, or LENITY, which attempers Anger, ... CLEMENCY is that
by which God attempers the deserved punishments, that by their severity and ..."
2. The Republic of Plato: An Ideal Commonwealth by Plato (1901)
"And he who mingles music with gymnastics in the fairest proportions, and best
attempers them to the soul, may be rightly called the true musician and ..."
3. Euripides by Euripides, Robert Potter (1832)
"... 590 I hear the sweet bird's mournful song : High-seated on some waving spray,
To varying chords the warbling nightingale attempers her melodious lay, ..."
4. The Works of Francis Bacon by John Thomas Scharf, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Francis Bacon, James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, Douglas Denon Heath, William Rawley (1878)
"A monarchy where there is no nobility at all, is ever a pure and absolute tyranny;
as that of the Turks. For nobility attempers sovereignty, and draws the ..."
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