All 4 Uses of
tempered
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- I promise you that to make up for her want of loyalty, I will be most inflexibly severe;" then casting an expressive glance at his betrothed, which seemed to say, "Fear not, for your dear sake my justice shall be tempered with mercy," and receiving a sweet and approving smile in return, Villefort quitted the room.†
Chpt 5-6
- Yes; but you had better not have anything to say to him, for he is not a very good-tempered gentleman.†
Chpt 63-64 *
- "But," said Andrea, ill-temperedly, "by my faith, if it was only to breakfast with you, that you disturbed me, I wish the devil had taken you!"†
Chpt 81-82
- "Truly," said Monte Cristo, "with your posthorses going at the rate of two leagues an hour, and that absurd law that one traveller shall not pass another without permission, so that an invalid or ill-tempered traveller may detain those who are well and active, it is impossible to move; I escape this annoyance by travelling with my own postilion and horses; do I not, Ali?"†
Chpt 85-86 *
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