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temeration en · NOUN

Etymology

From Latin temerare (“to defile”).

Meanings

  1. (obsolete, uncountable) temerity
    • the ancients did hide a light , and keep it in a dark lanthorn from the temeration of ruder handlings and popular preachers 1651–1653, Jer[emy] Taylor, ΕΝΙΑΥΤΟΣ [Eniautos]. A Course of Sermons for All the Sundays of the Year. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Richard Royston […], published 1655, →OCLC: