Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for TEM'PER-ATE-LY
TEM'PER-ATE-LY, adv.
- Moderately; without excess or extravagance.
- Calmly; without violence of passion; as, to reprove one temperately.
- With moderate force. Winds that temperately blow. Addison.
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