Definition of "good temper" []

• A cheerful and agreeable mood (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "A good temper can be cultivated, although it is a hard task to do so; yet a strong will can curb the fiery passion which surges through the heart; and can keep in hand the prancing, racing, leaping coursers of anger and fury."
• "I should have said that I told Vedrenne that good temper is essential, and he said the man he has recommended is a vegetarian and that Bernard Shaw says that vegetables are wonderful for the temper."
• "So home to dinner and then abroad to the Fishing Committee at Fishmongers 'Hall, and there sat and did some business considerable, and so up and home, and there late at my office doing much business, and I find with great delight that I am come to my good temper of business again."