All 4 Uses of
tempered
in
Crime and Punishment
- For, though Katerina Ivanovna is full of generous feelings, she is a spirited lady, irritable and short—tempered….†
Chpt 1.2
- But his sleep had not refreshed him; he waked up bilious, irritable, ill-tempered, and looked with hatred at his room.†
Chpt 1.3 *
- You are both melancholy, both morose and hot-tempered, both haughty and both generous….†
Chpt 3.4 *
- He met his visitor with an apparently genial and good-tempered air, and it was only after a few minutes that Raskolnikov saw signs of a certain awkwardness in him, as though he had been thrown out of his reckoning or caught in something very secret.†
Chpt 4.5
Definitions:
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(tempered as in: short-tempered) having a typical mood or temperament -- often in reference to how easily one is angered
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(tempered as in: bad news tempered by kindness) made less extreme