Definition of Hebetation

1. n. The act of making blunt, dull, or stupid.

Definition of Hebetation

1. Noun. The act of making blunt, dull, or stupid. ¹

2. Noun. The state of being blunted or dulled. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hebetation

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hebetation

hebephile
hebephiles
hebephrenia
hebephrenias
hebephrenic
hebephrenic schizophrenia
hebephrenics
hebes
hebesphenomegacorona
hebetant
hebetate
hebetated
hebetates
hebetating
hebetation (current term)
hebetations
hebete
hebetic
hebetude
hebetudes
hebetudinous
hebiatrics
hebona
hebonas
hebraization
hebraizations
hebraize
hebraized
hebraizes

Literary usage of Hebetation

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"... purging the Globe, by the death or the hebetation of such as endeavor to debase the Truth, or snatch it from our hands." And so the catastrophe ends by ..."

2. The Journal of Speculative Philosophy: Ed. by Wm. T. Harris edited by William Torrey Harris (1873)
"... or even the designed hebetation of a venomous and despotic hierarchy; and finally because he polemicized strongly against Roman Catholicism, ..."

3. The History of Greece by Ernst Curtius, William Alfred Packard (1876)
"... which men dwelling on the rnde highlands, and compelled to work hard for their daily bread, might be preserved from spiritual hebetation and barbarism. ..."

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