hebetude

Example Sentences

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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

Great hebetude and torpor have marked some epidemics.

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

"A debauched old fellow," says Friedrich; "gone all to hebetude by his labors in that line; agrees always with the last speaker."

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 15 by Carlyle, Thomas

The alternate delirium or coma and clearness of mind in meningitis contrast with the persistent hebetude, stupor, or muttering delirium and the muscular relaxation in typhoid fever.

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