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A general tendency or orientation towards a certain type of mood, a volatile state; a habitual way of thinking, behaving or reacting.
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State of mind; mood.
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A tendency to become angry.
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Anger; a fit of anger.
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1919, Henry Blake Fuller, chapter 28, in Bertram Cope’s Year:
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1919, Henry Blake Fuller, chapter 28, in Bertram Cope’s Year: Hortense remained for several days in a condition of sullen anger—she was a cloud lit up by occasional unaccountable flashes of temper.
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1953, C. S. Lewis, chapter 1, in The Silver Chair, London: Geoffrey Bles, published 1965:
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1953, C. S. Lewis, chapter 1, in The Silver Chair, London: Geoffrey Bles, published 1965: Jill suddenly flew into a temper (which is quite a likely thing to happen if you have been interrupted in a cry).
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1999, Colm Tóibín, chapter 4, in The Blackwater Lightship, New York: Scribner, page 110:
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1999, Colm Tóibín, chapter 4, in The Blackwater Lightship, New York: Scribner, page 110: […] she banged the door as she left as though in temper and walked to her car.
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Calmness of mind; moderation; equanimity; composure.
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(obsolete) Constitution of body; the mixture or relative proportion of the four humours: blood, choler, phlegm, and melancholy.
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Middle state or course; mean; medium.
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The state of any compound substance which results from the mixture of various ingredients; due mixture of different qualities.
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The heat treatment to which a metal or other material has been subjected; a material that has undergone a particular heat treatment.
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The state of a metal or other substance, especially as to its hardness, produced by some process of heating or cooling.
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(sugar manufacture, historical) Milk of lime, or other substance, employed in the process formerly used to clarify sugar.
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(pottery, architecture) A non-plastic material, such as sand, added to clay to prevent shrinkage and cracking during drying or firing; tempering.