[ad. late or med.L. tepiditās (631 in Gallia Christiana, II. 186), f. tepidus TEPID. So F. tépidité (14th c. in Godef., Compl.).] The quality or condition of being tepid; moderate or slight warmth; lukewarmness. a. lit.

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1656.  Blount, Glossogr., Tepidity, lukewarmnesse.

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1676.  in Phil. Trans., XI. 601. Any perceptible degree of tepidity.

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1750.  Johnson, Rambler, No. 80, ¶ 3. The body, chilled with the weather, is gradually recovering its natural tepidity.

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  b.  fig.

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a. 1631.  Donne, Select. (1840), 220. This heat may ouercome my former frigidity and coldness, and … my succeeding tepidity and lukewarmness.

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1740.  [see TEPID b].

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1819.  Metropolis, I. 48. The mawkish tepidity of his manner.

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1884.  Fortn. Rev., Jan., 138. Tepidity of political belief.

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