Payment for an office or employment; compensation. [Middle English, from Latin Ämolumentum, gain, originally a miller's fee for grinding grain, from Ämolere, to grind out : Ä-, ex-, ex- + molere, to grind; see melÉ- in Indo-European roots.] American HeritageÂ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.
What determines a person's character? How is a person's character determined? Life is filled with temptations, obstacles, frustrations, inner struggles and dilemmas that we all have to cope with, things which test our character. I think character is built according to how we deal with these as children.
There are two sides to personality, one of which is temperament and the other character. Temperament is a configuration of inclinations, while character is a configuration of habits. Character is disposition, temperament pre-disposition. Thus, for example, foxes are predisposed -- born -- to raid hen houses, beavers to dam up streams, dolphins to affiliate in close-knit schools, and owls to hunt alone in the dark.