2. Verb. (third-person singular of temper) ¹
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Definition of Tempers
1. temper [v] - See also: temper
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tempers
Literary usage of Tempers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Account of the European Settlements in America: Containing an Accurate by Edmund Burke, William Burke (1808)
"Advantages there for tempers prejudicial at home. ... These are fiery, restless
tempers, willing to undertake the severest labour, provided it promises but ..."
2. The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York by Daniel Defoe (1790)
"... the czar: that the heighth of human wif- dom was to bring our tempers down to
our circum- fiances, and to make a calm within, under the weight of the ..."
3. Self-knowledge: A Treatise, Shewing the Nature and Benefit of the Important by John Mason (1794)
"... our Natural tempers. IX. " ANOTHER very important -t-*- " branch of felf-knowledge
is, ... a man's " natural temper" Thg difference of natural tempers ..."
4. Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities by Shearjashub Spooner (1853)
"... I have so long been accustomed to study features, and the expression of the
mind by tbem, that I know people's tempers by their faces. ..."
5. A Treatise on Self Knowledge by John Mason (1821)
"X. The necessity and means of knowing our natural tempers. IX. ... The difference
of natural tempers seems to be chiefly owing to the different degrees of ..."
6. The Dignity of Human Nature: Or, a Brief Account of the Certain and by James Burgh (1794)
"Men's natural tempers have a very great influence over their way of thinking.
Sanguine people, for example, fee every thing very ..."
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