All 4 Uses of
tempered
in
Mansfield Park
- The very idea of her having been suffered to grow up at a distance from us all in poverty and neglect, would be enough to make either of the dear, sweet-tempered boys in love with her.
Chpt 1sweet-tempered = kind
- The first feeling was disappointment: he had hoped better things; he had thought that an hour's entreaty from a young man like Crawford could not have worked so little change on a gentle-tempered girl like Fanny; but there was speedy comfort in the determined views and sanguine perseverance of the lover; and when seeing such confidence of success in the principal, Sir Thomas was soon able to depend on it himself.
Chpt 33tempered = typical mood
- She could not do otherwise than accept him, for he was rich, and she had nothing; but he turns out ill-tempered and exigeant, and wants a young woman, a beautiful young woman of five-and-twenty, to be as steady as himself.
Chpt 36ill-tempered = rude or easily made angry
- She thought he was really good-tempered, and could fancy his entering into a plan of that sort most pleasantly.
Chpt 43 *tempered = typical mood
Definition:
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(tempered as in: short-tempered) having a typical mood or temperament -- often in reference to how easily one is angered