intemerate
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- intemerately adverb
- intemerateness noun
Etymology
Origin of intemerate
1485–95; < Latin intemerātus, equivalent to in- in- 3 + temerā ( re ) to violate, desecrate + -tus past participle suffix
Example Sentences
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A mutilated inscription on the throne reads: dvrantis phanen ad intemerate Virginis lavdē tercentv͞m avreis alq hvjvs templi Bono centv̄ svperaditis hanc solerti cvra fieri demandavit Matteo de Martinotiis fidei commissario procvranti mcccc 97 petrvs pervsinvs pinxit.
From Project Gutenberg
"Do you suppose," said I, "That any impulse less supreme than love— Love bold to venture, but intemerate— Could bring me here—that Pity could do this?"
From Project Gutenberg
Lastly, this commandment conveys the obligation to dissent from, and reject, every superstition and every error, requiring us to preserve pure and intemerate the adoration due to the Supreme Being, who, in this sense, is represented in this text as jealously watching over human actions, and a not indifferent spectator of good or evil; therefore a sure punisher of the guilty, and an eternal remunerator of him who faithfully adheres to His law.
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