Temper vs Mollify - What's the difference?
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A tendency to be of a certain type of mood.
* , chapter=8
, title= State of mind.
* 1719- (Daniel Defoe), (Robinson Crusoe)
The state of any compound substance which results from the mixture of various ingredients; due mixture of different qualities.
(obsolete) Constitution of body; the mixture or relative proportion of the four humours: blood, choler, phlegm, and melancholy.
* Fuller
The heat treatment to which a metal or other material has been subjected; a material that has undergone a particular heat treatment.
Calmness of mind; moderation; equanimity; composure.
* Alexander Pope
* Ben Jonson
The state of a metal or other substance, especially as to its hardness, produced by some process of heating or cooling.
Middle state or course; mean; medium.
* Macaulay
(sugar manufacture, historical) Milk of lime, or other substance, employed in the process formerly used to clarify sugar.
To moderate or control.
To strengthen or toughen a material, especially metal, by heat treatment; anneal.
* Dryden
To spices in ghee or oil to release essential oils for flavouring a dish in South Asian cuisine.
To mix clay, plaster or mortar with water to obtain the proper consistency.
(music) To adjust, as the mathematical scale to the actual scale, or to that in actual use.
(obsolete, Latinism) To govern; to manage.
* Spenser
(archaic) To combine in due proportions; to constitute; to compose.
* 1610 , , act 3 scene 3
(archaic) To mingle in due proportion; to prepare by combining; to modify, as by adding some new element; to qualify, as by an ingredient; hence, to soften; to mollify; to assuage.
* Bancroft
* Otway
* Byron
* Addison
(obsolete) To fit together; to adjust; to accommodate.
* Bible, Wisdom xvi. 21
To ease a burden, particularly worry; make less painful; to comfort.
* 1893 , (Henry George), The Condition of Labor: An Open Letter to Pope Leo XIII,
*:All that charity can do where injustice exists is here and there to somewhat mollify the effects of injustice.
* 1997 , A Government Reinvented: A Study of Alberta's Deficit Elimination Program,
*:The draft Charter School Handbook issued in November 1994 sought to mollify concerns over teacher quality, if not ATA membership, by requiring teacher certification.
To appease (anger), pacify, gain the good will of.
* 1867 , , chapter 2:
* 1916 , , chapter 5:
To soften; to make tender
* 1662 , , Book III, A Collection of Several Philosophical Writings of Dr. Henry More, p. 113:
* 1724 , (William Burkitt), Expository Notes, with Practical Observations on the New Testament,
*:By thy kindness thou wilt melt and mollify his spirit towards thee, as hardest metals are melted by coals of fire …
Temper is a synonym of mollify.
As verbs the difference between temper and mollify
is that temper is to moderate or control while mollify is to ease a burden, particularly worry; make less painful; to comfort.As a noun temper
is a tendency to be of a certain type of mood.temper
English
(wikipedia temper)Alternative forms
* tempre (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Afore we got to the shanty Colonel Applegate stuck his head out of the door. His temper had been getting raggeder all the time, and the sousing he got when he fell overboard had just about ripped what was left of it to ravellings.}}
- the temper of mortar
- The exquisiteness of his [Christ's] bodily temper increased the exquisiteness of his torment.
- to keep one's temper
- To fall with dignity, with temper rise.
- Restore yourselves to your tempers , fathers.
- the temper of iron or steel
- The perfect lawgiver is a just temper between the mere man of theory, who can see nothing but general principles, and the mere man of business, who can see nothing but particular circumstances.
Derived terms
* lose one's temper * short temper * short-temperedSynonyms
* (tendency of mood) dispositionCoordinate terms
* (Heat treatment) quenchingVerb
(en verb)- Temper your language around children.
- Tempering is a heat treatment technique applied to metals, alloys, and glass to achieve greater toughness by increasing the strength of materials and/or ductility. Tempering is performed by a controlled reheating of the work piece to a temperature below its lower eutectic critical temperature.
- The tempered metals clash, and yield a silver sound.
- With which the damned ghosts he governeth, / And furies rules, and Tartare tempereth .
- You fools! I and my fellows
- Are ministers of fate: the elements
- Of whom your swords are temper'd may as well
- Wound the loud winds, or with bemock'd-at stabs
- Kill the still-closing waters, as diminish
- One dowle that's in my plume;
- Puritan austerity was so tempered by Dutch indifference, that mercy itself could not have dictated a milder system.
- Woman! lovely woman! nature made thee / To temper man: we had been brutes without you.
- But thy fire / Shall be more tempered , and thy hope far higher.
- She [the Goddess of Justice] threw darkness and clouds about her, that tempered the light into a thousand beautiful shades and colours.
- Thy sustenance serving to the appetite of the eater, tempered itself to every man's liking.
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Alternative forms
* mollifieVerb
(en-verb)p. 104:
p. 408:
- Although this invitation was accompanied with a curtsey that might have softened the heart of a church-warden, it by no means mollified the beadle.
- The angry goat was quite mollified by the respectful tone in which he was addressed.
- "Nor is it any more difficulty for him to mollifie what is hard, then it is to harden what is so soft and fluid as the Aire."
p. 102: