tempers

Noun

temper (countable and uncountable, plural tempers)

1. A general tendency or orientation towards a certain type of mood, a volatile state; a habitual way of thinking, behaving or reacting.
   • to have a good, bad, or calm temper
2. State of mind; mood.
   • Remember with what mild / And gracious temper he both heard and judg’d / Without wrauth or reviling;1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...

   Synonyms:

   disposition, temperament

3. A tendency to become angry.
   • Mind your hasty temper!
4. Anger; a fit of anger.
   • an outburst of temper

   Synonyms:

   rage

5. Calmness of mind; moderation; equanimity; composure.
   • to keep one's temper; to lose one's temper; to recover one's temper
6. (obsolete) Constitution of body; the mixture or relative proportion of the four humours: blood, choler, phlegm, and melancholy.
   • […] it is hard to say, whether [Christ’s] pain was more shamefull, or his shame more painfull unto him: the exquisiteness of his bodily temper, increasing the exquisiteness of his torment, and the ingenuity of his Soul, adding to his sensibleness of the indignities and affronts offered until him.1650, Thomas Fuller, A Pisgah-Sight of Palestine and the Confines Thereof, London: John Williams, Book 3, Chapter 12, p. 345

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