Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Gentle heat; moderate warmth.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Gentle heat; moderate warmth; tepidness.
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- noun archaic
lukewarmness ,tepidness , moderatewarmth .
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Examples
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The lodge is employed in winter to retain the heat within itself, and exclude the cold air; nor is it wonderful that, in the progress of years, the term tepor, or tepe, should become the only one by which a lodge is known.
ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIFE 1841
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So in relation to the Latin word tepor, warmth, and the Sioux word tepe, a lodge.
ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIFE 1841
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The tepor of her politeness was like a blow between the eyes, and he peered blindly into her face in vain for some sign of the girl he knew.
Madcap George Gibbs 1906
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Pro repente multi et scripti et editi tepente, Taubnero et Kreb - sio probaotibus. £t tepor solet tem Zephyro, craam, cuius - co* ines est, veri tribui, ut III.
P. Ovidii Nasonis Fastorum libri VI. Ovid, Publius Ovidius Naso, Gottlieb Erdmann Gierig 1812
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ouaque maternus rupit hiulca tepor, protinus implumis conuertit ad aethera nidos5
An Eagle of Roman Song Claudian 1912
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Quanta quippe mala ex conjuratione proveniant ex ipsa poterit diffinitione perpendi, quæ talis est — communia tumor plebis, timor regni, tepor sacerdotii. "—
qms commented on the word tepor
The Tupelo family called Pfeffer
Was stuck in a stuporish tepor
Till Mom started pagin’
Through recipes cajun
To temper their torpor with pepper.
January 27, 2019