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Definition of Soberest
1. sober [adj] - See also: sober
Lexicographical Neighbors of Soberest
Literary usage of Soberest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1849)
"very difficult for the soberest head, when engaged in framing tho truest and most
reasonable system, to rest quite contented with such materials as mere ..."
2. The History of Sandford and Merton by Thomas Day (1826)
"... every countenance ; and the other possessed such unrivalled skill in cooking
a repast, that even the soberest guest was tempted to commit intemperance. ..."
3. Chronological Tables: Comprehending the Chronology and History of the World ...Chronology, Historical (1857)
"... By postponing nothing/ His measures, indeed, were all planned with the soberest
and most deliberate circumspection, and then executed without delay, ..."
4. The Works of the Right Rev. John Sage, a Bishop of the Church in Scotland by John Sage, Spottiswoode Society (1844)
"This, I say, he plainly affirms to have been always the sentiment of the soberest
and wisest. By consequence, are not both these affirmatives joined ..."
5. The Lauderdale Papers by John Maitland Lauderdale, Osmund Airy (1885)
"Yow propose a meeting of some of the soberest Dissenters with some of my Lords
the Bishops & of the Orthodox Clergie ; And Althogh such Meeting had no ..."
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