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attemperations

attemperations is the plural of attemperation.

Meaning of attemperation

Noun

attemperation (plural attemperations)

  1. (archaic) The act of attempering or regulating.
    • And if this be possible, it can certainly be effected no other way than by proper and exquisite attemperations of nature; as it were by the harmony and fine touching of the harp1609 (revised 1625), Francis Bacon, De Sapientia Veterum ('Wisdom of the Ancients')

Questions about attemperations

What is attemperations the plural of?
Attemperations is the plural of attemperation.

Words near attemperations in the dictionary

  1. attemperated
  2. attemperately
  3. attemperates
  4. attemperating
  5. attemperation
  6. attemperations
  7. attemperator
  8. attemperators
  9. attempered
  10. attempereth
  11. attempering

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