Definition of "clime"

Is this the Region, this the Soil, the Clime,Said then the lost Arch-Angel, this the seatThat we must change for Heav'n, this mournful gloomFor that celestial light?

1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, lines 242–245

My ſoul turn from them, turn we to ſurvey / Where rougher climes a nobler race diſplay,

1764 December 19 (indicated as 1765), Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller, or A Prospect of Society. A Poem. […], London: […] J[ohn] Newbery, […], page 9

"And as their valour, so you trow, defiedon aspe'rous voyage cruel harm and sore,so many changing skies their manhood tried,such climes where storm-winds blow and billows roar[.]"

1880, Richard Francis Burton, Os Lusíadas, volume I, page 23

She thought of her husband in some vague warm clime on the other side of the globe, while she was here in the cold.

1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d’Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), London: James R[ipley] Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., […]

She had not yielded for an instant to the enervating charm of the tropics, but contrariwise was more active, more worldly, more decided than anyone in a temperate clime would have thought it possible to be.

1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […]