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Temper   /tˈɛmpər/   Listen
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



... multiplicity of orders, happened frequently. He might have fared worse had not Red George always stood his friend, and Red George was an authority in Pine Tree Gulch—powerful in frame, reckless in bearing and temper, he had been in a score of fights and had come off them, if not unscathed, at least victorious. He was notoriously a lucky digger, but his earnings went as fast as they were made, and he was always ready ...
— Among Malay Pirates - And Other Tales Of Adventure And Peril • G. A. Henty

... said Gaston, losing all control of his temper. Then reflecting that this very energy in defending her might compromise Madeleine, he said, more calmly, "I beg your lordship to pause before you insult Mademoiselle Melanie. I know something of her history. She bears an unblemished ...
— Fairy Fingers - A Novel • Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie

... laisser-passer fail me. During the final days of the siege, when the temper and endurance of the Belgian defenders were strained almost to the breaking-point, I motored out to witness the German assault on the forts near Willebroeck. With me were Captain Raymond Briggs of the United States army ...
— Fighting in Flanders • E. Alexander Powell

... the blood fairly spouted out—got her in the leg, and she lost her temper, and began lashing out. Hunt, with great presence of mind, threw a bucket of water over them both. And as soon as they were quiet, dear, good, demure little Tank was put in between them ...
— Letters to Helen - Impressions of an Artist on the Western Front • Keith Henderson

... say to himself: 'My father knows of all this vice at schools, and yet has not said one word to me about it. He has warned me about most things. He told me to be truthful, to keep my temper, to be upright and manly, to say my prayers; he pressed me never to get into debt, never to drink, and never to use bad language; and he told me I ought to change my boots and clothes when wet, so as not to get ...
— The Power of Womanhood, or Mothers and Sons - A Book For Parents, And Those In Loco Parentis • Ellice Hopkins


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