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English
Etymology
From attemper + -ation.
Noun
attemperation (plural attemperations)
- (archaic) The act of attempering or regulating.
- 1609 (revised 1625), Francis Bacon, De Sapientia Veterum ('Wisdom of the Ancients')
- And if this be possible, it can certainly be effected no other way than by proper and exquisite attemperations of nature; as it were by the harmony and fine touching of the harp
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