Quickness of temper; tendency to sudden anger or irritation.

Ill temper, sullenness, brooding, anger. Obsolete.

Hastiness, rashness; (also) anger, quickness of temper.

Haste; anger; = hastiveness, n.

A rash or violent act.

Hastiness, rashness; anger; = hastiveness, n.

Anger, rage. Also: proneness to anger; irascibility, fieriness, ill temper. Cf. bile, n. 2, gall, n.1 3a.

The quality of being fiery; fieriness.

The state or quality of being choleric; irascibility; anger. Also in extended use. Cf. choler, n. 3.

The condition or fact of being hot-tempered or passionate; vivacity, feistiness; eagerness, zeal. Also: animation of the eyes as a result of…

The quality of being irascible; proneness to anger, quickness of temper, irritability.

The state or quality of being parlous; esp. precariousness, dangerousness, direness.

= ill-temper at sense 10b: Heat of mind or passion, showing itself by outbursts of irritation or anger upon slight provocation; explosive ill-humour.

Sharpness of speech, etc.; hastiness of some passion or emotion, esp. temper; an instance of this.