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1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing xxiii. 227 The larger Souls, that have travail'd the divers Climates of Opinions, are more cautious in their resolves.

1691 A. Brown Vindicatory Schedule §III. 47 Artifice in the Physician and Error in the people is the best soil and compost in the natural climat of Opinion of the most fragrant and luxuriant Reputation.

1750 J. Campbell Present State Europe p. iv The Humours are not yet evacuated, they may still ferment, if any considerable Alteration should happen in the political Climate of those Countries.

1765 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy VIII. i. 2 In this clear climate of fantasy and perspiration, where every idea, sensible and insensible, gets vent.

1816 H. More Lett. (1834) III. iv. vii. 443 Our country..is so thinly planted with gentry, (the spiritual climate also being rather cold,) that without some effort somewhere it would come to nothing.

1860 F. D. Huntington Christian Believing & Living vi. 105 Every moral climate here is more or less tainted, and grows pestilential if we linger in it too long.

1886 J. A. Symonds Renaissance in Italy I. ii. 139 Lorraine..felt his inner self expand in the rich climate of pontifical Rome.

1925 A. N. Whitehead Sci. & Mod. World 143 It is an exaggeration to attribute a general change in a climate of thought to any one piece of writing or to any one author.

1945 Times 12 Dec. 5/3 The determining factor is likely to be the economic climate of the world in which they have to earn their national living.

1975 H. Acton Nancy Mitford iv. 59 The general climate was one of war weariness and disillusion after the elation of victory.

2004 H. Kennedy Just Law (2005) xiii. 272 It is crucial that a climate of suspicion does not develop which creates reservations amongst citizens about voluntarily submitting to DNA intelligence screens.