Definition of Stultification

1. Noun. Derision of someone or something as foolish or absurd or inconsistent.

Exact synonyms: Befooling
Generic synonyms: Derision
Derivative terms: Stultify, Stultify

2. Noun. The act of making something futile and useless (as by routine).
Exact synonyms: Constipation, Deadening, Impairment
Generic synonyms: Debasement, Degradation
Derivative terms: Deaden, Deaden

Definition of Stultification

1. n. The act of stultifying, or the state of being stultified.

Definition of Stultification

1. Noun. The process of making stultified. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Stultification

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Stultification

stuffless
stuffs
stuffy
stuggier
stuggiest
stuggy
stuiver
stuivers
stuke
stull
stulls
stulm
stulms
stulp
stulps
stultification (current term)
stultifications
stultified
stultifier
stultifiers
stultifies
stultify
stultifying
stultifyingly
stultiloquence
stultiloquies
stultiloquy
stulty
stum
stumble

Literary usage of Stultification

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

1. History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century by William Randolph Hearst (1851)
"SELF-stultification. The highest, most deliberate, peremptory, and solemn instance perhaps on record, of this species of absurdity, is the dismissal of his ..."

2. The Medical Jurisprudence of Insanity: With References to the Scotch and by John Hutton Balfour Browne (1880)
"The maxim as to Self-stultification considered.— It was a maxim of the common law, and was affirmed by Lord Coke, that " a man shall not be allowed to ..."

3. The Failure of Lord Curzon: A Study in "imperialism" by Charles James O'Donnell (1903)
"... of a century been trying to get rid of the Punjab civil control, but under strong Viceroys like Lords Lansdowne, Dufferin, and Elgin stultification. ..."

4. The Democratic Party of the State of Ohio: A Comprehensive History of by Thomas Edward Powell, James E. Campbell, Claude Meeker, H. A. Jameson (1913)
"... Tilden Campaign—Tilden Elected But Counted Out By the Electoral Commission—The stultification of Hayes and Resentment of Democrats All Over the Country. ..."

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