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Definition
usual mood and tendencies
- Not politics, not a desire for freedom—they don't have the temperament or the intellect for such things.Book 2 — Revelation (84% in)
- The Congo River, being of a different temperament, drowned most of its conquerors outright.Book 5 — Exodus (4% in)
- It's because they tried to go and do it all for themselves over there, and don't have the temperament.Book 5 — Exodus (62% in)
- But it's Martin-Lothaire who's turning out to be the darkest of my sons, in complexion and temperament.Book 5 — Exodus (95% in)
There are no more uses of "temperament" in The Poisonwood Bible.
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