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Temperament

noun

Your usual mood. Synonym: disposition.

Excessive emotionalism or irritability and excitability (especially when displayed openly).

An adjustment of the intervals (as in tuning a keyboard instrument) so that the scale can be used to play in different keys.

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... me a good-night?—many thanks for your kindness, but if you have any hope that your wish will be realised, you must be of a very sanguine temperament, or you have ...

— Frank Fairlegh - Scenes From The Life Of A Private Pupil • Frank E. Smedley

... seemed effectually and almost unconsciously to have enthralled the king. All his previous passions were boyish and ephemeral. But Mary was very different from any other lady of the court. Her depth of feeling, her pensive yet cheerful temperament, and her full-souled sympathy in all that was truly noble in conduct and character, astonished and engrossed the ...

— Louis XIV., Makers of History Series • John S. C. Abbott

... lessons progressed the teacher became conscious of a growing attachment for the younger of his pupils. There was something spiritual about the character of this maiden which appealed strongly to his musical temperament, though probably the loneliness of his life at the time may have added force to his longing to possess her for his wife. His poverty, however, must have convinced him of the hopelessness of declaring himself at the moment, ...

— Story-Lives of Great Musicians • Francis Jameson Rowbotham

... solution of all poverty's problems, but I realize that temperament has much to do with success in any undertaking, and persons afraid of coyotes and work and loneliness had better let ranching alone. At the same time, any woman who can stand her own company, can see the beauty of the sunset, loves growing ...

— Letters of a Woman Homesteader • Elinore Pruitt Stewart

... in the time it consumes, according to the temperament of individuals. The mean time, however, is seven hours, viz., three hours for the stomach, and the rest of the time for ...

— The Physiology of Taste • Brillat Savarin

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