good-tempered, a.
(The stress is variable.)
[f. good temper (see temper n.) + -ed2.]
Having a good temper; not easily vexed.
| 1768 Sterne Sent. Journ. (1778) II. 88 (Character) The French..are a..good-temper'd people as is under heaven. 1837 H. Martineau Soc. Amer. III. 54 They have been called the most good-tempered people in the world. |
| Comb. 1838 Dickens O. Twist xxxix, A good-tempered, faced man cook. |
Hence
good-ˈtemperedly adv.| a 1822 Shelley Coliseum Prose Wks. 1880 III. 38 How good-temperedly the sage acceded to her request. 1888 Sat. Rev. 13 Oct. 441/2 Godin defended himself good-temperedly. |