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soberness|ˈsəʊbənɪs|
[f. sober a. + -ness.]
The state or character of being sober; sobriety: a. In respect of the appetites.
a1300Cursor M. 27408 Gains glotory [is assigned] soburnes o mete. c1386Chaucer Pars. T. ⁋834 Sobrenesse also, that restreyneth the outrage of drinke. 14..Tundale's Vis. 1869 Thay..kepte hir bodyes ay fre From lechery in chastite, And thay loved soburnes ay. 1509Barclay Shyp of Folys (1570) 258 By sobernes subduing their sensualitie. 1530Tindale Answ. More 8 The soberness and chastising of the members. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Sobriety or Soberness, a Vertue by which one abstains from eating and drinking more than is requisite. 1780Mirror No. 73, Habits of virtue and soberness. 1861Ruffini Dr. Antonio ii, Owing to the care and proverbial soberness of the postilions.
b. In respect of demeanour, actions, etc.
c1375Sc. Leg. Saints x. (Matthew) 444 [He] sobryt þam..vith softnes & vith sobrenes. 1382Wyclif Rom. xii. 3 To not sauere..more than it behoueth for to kunne, but for to kunne to sobrenesse. 1463G. Ashby Prisoner's Refl. 302 With humylyte and soburnes. c1470Rauf Coilȝear 525 Lat se how we may disseuer with sobernes aneuch. 1528More Dyaloge iii. Wks. 233/2 Y⊇ hole byble was long before his dayes..with deuocion & sobrenes wel and reuerently red. a1548Hall Chron., Hen. V, 1 Turnyng insolencie and wyldnes into grauitie and sobernes. 1648Fairfax, etc. Remonstrance 6 In all humblenesse and sobernesse of minde. 1784Cowper Task ii. 480 He would not stoop To conquer those by jocular exploits, Whom truth and soberness assail'd in vain. 1825Cobbett Rural Rides 232, I..stood still,..looking, in silent soberness, into the window. |