[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That tempers; softening, mitigating.
1612. Selden, Drayton’s Poly-olb., vi. Notes, 97. Those that sing the tempering and mollifying Pæans to Apollo.
1817. Byron, Lam. of Tasso, viii. Like steel in tempering fire.
1846. M’Culloch, Acc. Brit. Emp. (1854), I. 91. The tempering influence of the ocean.
