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Apparently the word "complexion" has shifted in meaning and it used to mean "temperment" even into the 19th century. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/complexion#

Apparently the word "complexion" has shifted in meaning and it used to mean "temperment" even into the 19th century. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/complexion#Etymology https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/complexion#Etymology

vfclists 3y ago
And what do you discover when you follow that etymology to its Latin origins?
- fortran77 3y ago
  I didn't, because we were talking about how the word was used in the 18th century, and at that time the word meant "temperment." Words shift in meaning.