distemperature

American  

[dis-tem-per-uh-cher] / dɪsˈtɛm pər ə tʃər /

noun

1. a distempered or disordered condition; disturbance of health, mind, or temper.

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Etymology

Origin of distemperature

1525–35; obsolete distemperate ( dis- ¹ + temperate ) + -ure

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Example Sentences

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distemperature

That soul so softly radiant and so white 210 The track it left seems less of fire than light, Cold but to such as love distemperature?

From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by James Russell Lowell

There is a very beautiful letter of Archbishop Leighton's to a lady under a similar distemperature of the imagination.

From The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Henry Nelson Coleridge

By this distemperature of weather much cattel perished, much corne vpon the ground was either destroyed, or greatly empaired.

From The Lives of the III Normans, Kings of England: William the First, William the Second, Henrie the First by John Hayward

I walked about the chamber unable to rid myself either of my sickly qualms, the feverish distemper of my blood, or the still more fevered distemperature of my mind.

From The Adventures of Hugh Trevor by Thomas Holcroft

Can it be so, my son, that thou art brought By mad distemperature against thy sire, On hearing of the irrevocable doom Passed on thy promised bride?

From The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles

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