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hebetude

[heb-i-tood, -tyood] / ˈhɛb ɪˌtud, -ˌtjud /


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He detested the mob for its human hebetude.

From Time Magazine Archive

So full of hebetude is the film that baseball fans squirmed, bit thumbs, made unpleasant faces.

From Time Magazine Archive

Benumbed, exhausted, sunk in hebetude, she waited until she could wait no more, until intolerable suspense drove her blindly.

From Where the Pavement Ends by John Russell

We are on the eve of a Jubilee Year, when the halcyon shall plume his wing, and we shall hear much oratorical trash and hebetude about the peacefulness of this happy reign.

From Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. II) by John Augustus O'Shea

More hebetude; tongue more coated with brownish fur, red at tip; bowels continue costive; opened by an enema. 31st.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various




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