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Temperament. by Henry Rayner

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

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Temperament, derived from “tempero,” owed its meaning to the supposed mingling of the “humours,” the sanguineous, the bilious, the phlegmatic and the melancholic, the predominance of any one of these in an individual giving rise to the characters of the corresponding temperament.

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