Attemperation

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The act of attempering or regulating. archaic

    "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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"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"

Etymology

From attemper + -ation.

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