Temperament: n.m. (word coming from the imperial Latin temperamentum “fair proportion”, hence “action of tempering”, from temperare “to soften”).
The word “temperament” has several meanings:
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1. Aged or literary meaning: Balance of a mixture, of a composition.
- Quote from the French writer Paul Valéry (1871-1945): “This temperament of my tendencies”.
2. Measure in judgments, conduct.
- Quote from the French writer Théophile Gautier (1811-1872): “A boldness...
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