TEMPERATIVE

Etymology

Adjective

temperative (comparative more temperative, superlative most temperative)

Having the power to temper something.

Source: Wiktionary


Tem"per*a*tive, a. Etym: [Cf. L. temperativus soothing.]

Definition: Having power to temper. [R.] T. Granger.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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ENDLESSLY

(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”


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