Verb (used with object), : Menial work can stultify the mind. From Dictionary.com.
My countrymen! my countrymen! what stultification does not such a fallacy involve!. From Wordnik.com. [Public Speaking] Reference
Routine -- accurate and detailed work -- does not mean the stultification of the imagination. From Wordnik.com. [Civics and Health] Reference
It would be a very stultification of our reason to refuse to believe Him, once we admit His existence. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals] Reference
This exemplifies the intellectual stultification of purveyors of conventional wisdom today. abb1 Says. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Far-Right European Posters] Reference
And the scent gave him a feeling of stultification, of remoteness from Elizabeth, even though she was in his arms. From Wordnik.com. [Burmese Days] Reference
The foregoing way of responding to the self-stultification argument is further explained and defended in Robinson (1982b). From Wordnik.com. [Epiphenomenalism] Reference
Was that failure because of independent stultification of all those hundreds of autonomous cultural developments in Australia?. From Wordnik.com. ['Guns, Germs, and Steel'] Reference
Keep shots to a minimum and keep the games close -- in the apparent hope that the other team will collapse from stultification. From Wordnik.com. [Nothing But Rim] Reference
Chabad is part of the Haredi world, and it’s a world that fosters poverty while encouraging intellectual stultification. From Wordnik.com. [Inter-Lubav Infighting Leaves 770 in Shambles | Jewschool] Reference
Another decade of stultification would have to pass before Riesser, and others, would have the chance to fight for that choice. From Wordnik.com. [Emancipation] Reference
Credulity has led to stultification, and stultification of the mind is the bitter fruit which we have been reaping for thousands of years. From Wordnik.com. [The Necessity of Atheism] Reference
If properly organized and directed, they can prevent military stultification and lead to progressive development of the military apparatus. From Wordnik.com. [Canada's Defence] Reference
Under the guise of being for "family values" (just like Vitter!) they promote the worst kind of far-right religious stultification of progress. From Wordnik.com. [Phil Plait: Vitter's $100K violation of the First Amendment] Reference
The municipal authorities may have thought that by this egregious act of self-stultification they might mitigate the judgment that was impending over them. From Wordnik.com. [London and the Kingdom - Volume II] Reference
Conservatives, he writes, should not "fancy themselves immune from the intellectual stultification that has overwhelmed other orthodoxies during a spell of power.". From Wordnik.com. [Richard Bradley: Proving Yet Again that Alabama Needs Better Schools] Reference
For mature deliberation through a set of revising institutions, read instead self-division, inconstancy, slowness, and legislative and administrative stultification. From Wordnik.com. [On Plato's Gorgias] Reference
But the force of ecclesiastical stultification was so great, as it is today, that men still believed the opposite view for two hundred years after the voyage of Magellan. From Wordnik.com. [The Necessity of Atheism] Reference
To have remained quietly in their homes would have been a stultification of their whole record from the beginning of the troubles; stand they must, some time and somewhere. From Wordnik.com. [The Campaign of 1776 around New York and Brooklyn] Reference
For mature deliberation through a set of revising institutions, read instead self-division, inconstancy, slowness, and legislative and administrative stultification. From Wordnik.com. [The Seven Dimensions] Reference
The ripest fruit of reason the stultification of reason. From Wordnik.com. [John Barleycorn] Reference
Her loyalty to Prosper took her easily the length of stultification. From Wordnik.com. [The Forest Lovers] Reference
But can there be self-stultification in urging any account whatever of truth?. From Wordnik.com. [Meaning of Truth] Reference
The stultification naturally became much worse as the first Darwinians died out. From Wordnik.com. [Back to Methuselah] Reference
Why be guilty of such mean self-stultification as to say one thing and do another?. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper] Reference
Analysis has driven out creativity and doomed organizations to boring stultification. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Democracy could not ratify a choice which would involve a stultification so humiliating and so complete. From Wordnik.com. [Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 (of 2) From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860] Reference
Its blind acceptance seals the resignation of the will and the intellect to effacement and stultification. From Wordnik.com. [Liberalism] Reference
Malcolm precisely what he wanted and left the details of the stultification to his experienced adroitness. From Wordnik.com. [The Great God Success] Reference
And straightway to my stultification, I find myself translating paragraphs of pathos and indignation, in which. From Wordnik.com. [The Gentle Art of Making Enemies] Reference
It is still accurate in its accounting of this plague of social stultification as it was at its first printing. From Wordnik.com. [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference
But to such a piece of self-stultification the clear-sighted Dutchmen could by no persuasion be brought to consent. From Wordnik.com. [The Unseen World and Other Essays] Reference
Only the believer in the ante-rem brand of truth can on this theory seek to make converts without self - stultification. From Wordnik.com. [Meaning of Truth] Reference
This stultification of principle, of radical public sentiment, stirred the soul of Miss Dickinson, and she desired to speak. From Wordnik.com. [History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II] Reference
Or the consequence of the entire (Brahman entering into the effect), and stultification of (Brahman's) being devoid of parts. From Wordnik.com. [The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48] Reference
And here we come upon the oft-repeated apology of the critic for existing at all, and find how complete is his stultification. From Wordnik.com. [The Gentle Art of Making Enemies] Reference
Even though the bust-up didn't happen, the firm was cosseted and the possible stultification of the high-tech world was prevented. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
The stultification of one's feelings and ideas in circumstances which divide and set them at variance is worse than positive pain. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Complete] Reference
That, sir, would have been a degree of stultification and of subservience to your purposes, that you had no right to expect from the world. From Wordnik.com. [The Southern Spy. Letters on the Policy and Inauguration of the Lincoln War. Written Anonymously in Washington and Elsewhere.] Reference
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