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Definition of Soberized
1. soberize [v] - See also: soberize
Lexicographical Neighbors of Soberized
Literary usage of Soberized
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1830)
"Freed from the shackles of elaborate written discourse, yet restrained within
the bounds of chastened, soberized, and thoroughly ..."
2. Sermons Preached at Trinity Chapel, Brighton by Frederick William Robertson (1869)
"... aspect of the same being when it is nearly done — worn, soberized, covered
with the dust of life, and confessing that its days have been few and evil. ..."
3. Poets and Poetry: Being Articles Reprinted from the Literary Supplement of by John Cann Bailey (1911)
"... shepherd old and lame, Cold and diseased, it seemed my blood to tame; And I
was thankful for the moral sight, That soberized the vast and wild delight. ..."
4. The Wits and Beaux of Society by A. T. Thomson, Philip Wharton (1871)
"but that of Sydney was soberized by thought, and swayed by intense common sense.
The father had a mania for buying and altering places : one need hardly say ..."
5. The Wits and Beaux of Society by A. T. Thomson, Philip Wharton (1861)
"His oddities seem to have been coupled with folly; but that of Sydney was soberized
by thought, and swayed by intense common sense. ..."
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