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good-tempered, a.
(The stress is variable.)
[f. good temper (see temper n.) + -ed2.]
Having a good temper; not easily vexed.
1768Sterne Sent. Journ. (1778) II. 88 (Character) The French..are a..good-temper'd people as is under heaven. 1837H. Martineau Soc. Amer. III. 54 They have been called the most good-tempered people in the world.
Comb.1838Dickens O. Twist xxxix, A good-tempered, faced man cook.
Hence good-ˈtemperedly adv.
a1822Shelley Coliseum Prose Wks. 1880 III. 38 How good-temperedly the sage acceded to her request. 1888Sat. Rev. 13 Oct. 441/2 Godin defended himself good-temperedly. |