Meaning of temperment | Babel Free

Definitions

Misconstruction of temperament.

alt-of, misconstruction

Examples

“[…] it is possible, and probable, that the nervous temperment (as it is called) is inherited […]. Are men of nervous temperment found to be unfit […]? If not, why should women of the same temperment be unfit for them? The peculiarities of the temperment are, no doubt⟳, within certain limits, an obstacle to success in some employments, though an aid to it in others. But when the occupation is suitable to the temperment, […] It is evident that people of this temperment are particularly apt for [leadership].”

“What is disturbing to me is not the appearance per se but the attempt⟳ to cloak it as a non-political statement on judicial temperment. If judicial temperment were really the concern⟳ of the U.S. Attorney's office, they would provide⟳ the Committee with a full picture. Every lawyer who practices in D.C. Superior Court knows there are judges whose judicial temperment cries out for investigation […] The nub of the matter⟳ is not Judge⟳ Halleck's judicial temperment but the United States Attorney's dislike of the legal rulings of the judge⟳.”

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