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ˈtemperateness
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The quality of being temperate.
1. Moderateness, moderation; freedom from excess; temperance.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. v. xxvii. (Bodl. MS.), Þe spirites þat comeþ fro þe senewes and veynes ben isaued by temperatnes and ynorsched. Ibid. viii. iii, It was nede þat þere were wateres to bringe þat heuenlich heete to temperattnes. 1592W. Wyrley Armorie, Ld. Chandos 56, I..would not spare But liberall be, fraught with temperatenesse. 1651Life of Bucer in Fuller's Abel Rediv. (1867) I. 186 He was much admired..for his temperateness in his diet. 1746R. James Health's Impr. Introd. 56 All Heat beyond Temperateness..must necessarily be pernicious in all Distempers, where there is a Tendency to an alcaline Putrefaction.
b. Self-restraint; freedom from passion or mental heat; mildness, calmness.
1595Daniel Civ. Wars (1609) i. xxv, Langley; whose mild temperatness Did tend unto a calmer quietnesse. 1865Sat. Rev. 18 Feb. 184/2 The peculiar temperateness of assertion,..for which extremely young men are so notorious. 1871Athenæum 15 July 84 The same temperateness and fairness is displayed; while the author maintains what is commonly called orthodoxy.
2. spec. Of climatic conditions: Freedom from extremes of heat and cold or atmospheric disturbance; equability and mildness of climate.
1525Ld. Berners Froiss. II. clxxi. [clxvii.] 506 By reason of this hayle the ayre was brought into a good temperatenesse. 1563Golding Cæsar Pref. (1565) 7 The fertility of the soile, the temperatenesse of the aire. 1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1638) 265 Where the temperatenesse of the aire, and liuely springs, with the fruitfulnesse of the soile, doth euery where yeeld plenty. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. i. 2 The temperatenesse..of this Iland. 1828Webster s.v., The temperateness of the weather or of a climate. |