All 3 Uses of
temperate
in
The House of Mirth
- It certainly appeared, as he said, that Mrs. Dorset was the more active participant in the scene: her neighbour seemed to receive her advances with a temperate zest which did not distract him from his dinner.†
Chpt 1.5 *
- Grace Stepney was an obscure cousin, of adaptable manners and vicarious interests, who "ran in" to sit with Mrs. Peniston when Lily dined out too continuously; who played bezique, picked up dropped stitches, read out the deaths from the Times, and sincerely admired the purple satin drawing-room curtains, the Dying Gladiator in the window, and the seven-by-five painting of Niagara which represented the one artistic excess of Mr. Peniston's temperate career.†
Chpt 1.9
- "H'm—that's a temperate joy.†
Chpt 2.5
Definition:
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(temperate) lacking extremes -- especially of weather, climate, or behavior