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

Less common are the following: mental hebetude, lasting some days or even weeks after the close of the last paroxysm, or, as in a case of Carter's, gradually increasing mental feebleness, terminating in imbecility.

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

He has hebetude and some delirium, though not very active; he is deaf.

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

Even in her dullest moments of physical and mental hebetude she felt something pressing upon her from within for accomplishment, like a piece of unfinished business that she must presently rouse herself to put through.

From Clark's Field by Herrick, Robert