untempered

(ʌnˈtɛmpəd)

adj

1. (Metallurgy) metallurgy not strengthened or toughened by heat treatment, as by heating and quenching

2. not moderated or made more acceptable

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Adj.	1.	untempered - not brought to a proper consistency or hardness; "untempered mortar"; "untempered steel" unhardened tempered, toughened, hardened, treated - made hard or flexible or resilient especially by heat treatment; "a sword of tempered steel"; "tempered glass"
	2.	untempered - not moderated or controlled; "his untempered individualism" tempered - adjusted or attuned by adding a counterbalancing element; "criticism tempered with kindly sympathy"

Translations

untempered

[ˈʌnˈtempəd] ADJ [steel etc] → sin templar

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untempered

adj steel → ungehärtet, unvergütet; rage → ungemildert; justice untempered by mercy → Gerechtigkeit, die durch keinerlei Gnade gemildert wird

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The mother's impassioned state had been the medium through which were transmitted to the unborn infant the rays of its moral life; and, however white and clear originally, they had taken the deep stains of crimson and gold, the fiery lustre, the black shadow, and the untempered light of the intervening substance.

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"Why are you asking about my ancestors?" the girl demanded of the young German with untempered brightness.

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Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed; but judgment untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.

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Then, inch by inch, the untempered heat crept into the heart of the Jungle, turning it yellow, brown, and at last black.

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When it was enacted with bipartisan support in 1973, the Congress noted that "various species of fish, wildlife, and plants in the United States have been rendered extinct as a consequence of economic growth and development untempered by adequate concern and conservation." The purpose of the Act, it said, was "to provide a means whereby the ecosystems upon which endangered species and threatened species depend may be conserved."

On Thin Ice

There are, of course, those unfortunate souls that cannot partake of the ebullience of Decemberistan, those who have jobs that require them to be there early and bosses who have no sympathy for the midnight dinners that come with the month, those who have to work the events themselves and those who for ethical (yeah, they exist) reasons find the excess and gluttony, the untempered braggadocio and the lustful exhibitionism that comes with partaking, against their principles.

Decemberistan redux

[28] have shown that untempered martensite was present in the HAZ of the girth weld from the vintage pipe, but not in the modern pipe.

Fatigue Testing of Pipeline Welds and Heat-Affected Zones in Pressurized Hydrogen Gas

Walker: Airpower's Untempered Crusader (Maxwell AFB, AL: Air University Press, 1997), pp.

Firebombing Air Raids on Cities at Night

If Barnum is the untempered ocean, then Charity is his lighthouse keeper.

Putting on a show

As the words are spoken, Blanchett, decked out as a tightly coiled, upper-middle-class mom calling her family to a precisely orchestrated Sunday dinner, seems poised to shatter like untempered glass.

Being Cate the great