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untempered

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Adj.1.untempereduntempered - 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"
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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.
The Scarlet Letter by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
Then, inch by inch, the untempered heat crept into the heart of the Jungle, turning it yellow, brown, and at last black.
The Second Jungle Book by Kipling, Rudyard View in context
Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed; but judgment untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.
Jane Eyre by Bronte, Charlotte View in context
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