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Definition of Hebetudinous
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hebetudinous
Literary usage of Hebetudinous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Bookman (1896)
"9 The hebetudinous British mind will still, no doubt, wonder why any individual
should keep at a single bank so enormous a balance as to justify him in ..."
2. Woman in Science: With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for by John Augustine Zahm (1913)
"... as well as in the national life and popular customs of the countries which
she traverses, which escape the more hebetudinous perceptions of men, ..."
3. The Outlook for the Philippines by Charles Edward Russell (1922)
"... as between natural want and natural supply, stood a hebetudinous government
with lifted finger and "Thou shalt not" always on its lips. ..."
4. The Wilson Administration and the Great War by Ernest William Young (1922)
"... attitude of President Wilson and his Attorney-General— as Harvey's Weekly said
at the time: "Because one man was omniscient and another hebetudinous. ..."
5. A Day by the Fire: And Other Papers, Hitherto Uncollected by Leigh Hunt, Joseph Edward Babson (1870)
"... dull, uninformed, hebetudinous, " gross, open, and palpable" leg, whose calf
glares upon you like the ground-glass of a post-chaise lamp. ..."
6. Christian Science Before the Bar of Reason by Louis Aloisius Lambert (1908)
"... dignity of man's intelligence, must rest on an authority whose veracity is
demonstrated by cognizable proofs; otherwise it is hebetudinous credulity. ..."
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