Temeration

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    temerity obsolete, uncountable

    "the ancients did hide a light , and keep it in a dark lanthorn from the temeration of ruder handlings and popular preachers"

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"the ancients did hide a light , and keep it in a dark lanthorn from the temeration of ruder handlings and popular preachers"

Etymology

From Latin temerare (“to defile”).

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