Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or character of being sober, in any sense of the word; sobriety.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being sober.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state or quality of being
sober .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the state of being sober and not intoxicated by alcohol
- noun a manner that is serious and solemn
Etymologies
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Examples
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There are times, Anne dearie, when I know by your eyes that your soberness is put on like a garment and you're really aching to do something wild and young again.
Rainbow Valley Lucy Maud 1919
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A great deal of it was a strange language to May, but she half-disapproved of it, as entirely unlike the 'soberness' of Bridgefield ways, and like the Redcastle vicar, whom her father commonly called 'that madman.'
Nuttie's Father Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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“The report was there were many tears, much soberness and humbling among the family,” Jeffs said after ordering four women and five children to leave the ranch in May 2004.
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She liked him for a certain stern soberness that was his, and for his saving grace of humor.
CHAPTER 8 2010
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The Pacific has really grown on me and they both have a soberness as opposed to self-importance that will age well.
Michael Giltz: DVDs: Harry Potter Finale Arrives, Now Where's Pottermore? Michael Giltz 2011
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His penchant for harebrained schemes, his disastrous tenure as speaker of the House and his personal history, in a sense, are all part of the same issue, namely a lack of personal discipline, restraint and soberness.
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Noonan says there is a "new soberness," which makes very little sense, considering the people who destroyed the economy have been allowed to go right back to doing the same old thing.
TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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For all the understandable excitement associated with a very public wedding and national occasion, there is an equally understandable public soberness this time too.
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Noonan says there is a "new soberness," which makes very little sense, considering the people who destroyed the economy have been allowed to go right back to doing the same old thing.
TV SoundOff: Sunday Talking Heads The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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It's later and with time that a certain soberness, a certain inherent moderation normally take hold.
The Enigma of Jon Huntsman Peggy Noonan 2011
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