temeration
English
Etymology
From Latin temerare (“to defile”).
Noun
temeration (uncountable)
- (obsolete) temerity
- 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:
- the ancients did hide a light , and keep it in a dark lanthorn from the temeration of ruder handlings and popular preachers
References
- “temeration”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.