Both Uses of
tempered
in
Dubliners
- Melancholy was the dominant note of his temperament, he thought, but it was a melancholy tempered by recurrences of faith and resignation and simple joy.†
Chpt 8 *
- His blade of human knowledge, natural astuteness particularised by long association with cases in the police courts, had been tempered by brief immersions in the waters of general philosophy.†
Chpt 14
Definition:
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(tempered as in: bad news tempered by kindness) made less extreme