stultification
noun
the act or process of stultifying or the state of being stultified.
self-stultification
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a word derived from
stultification.
Example Sentences
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In the history of literature it is difficult to parallel such a deliberate piece of self-stultification.
From The Poems and Prose Poems of Charles Baudelaire with an Introductory Preface by James Huneker by Charles Baudelaire
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 London and the Kingdom - Volume II by Reginald R. (Reginald Robinson) Sharpe
In the face of this fact, is it not the merest self-stultification to admit the sovereignty of the people and deny it to the States, in which alone they have community existence?
From The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government by Jefferson Davis
Reformers exclusively as moral protestants and purifiers are condemned to misdirected effort, to an illiberal puritanism, and to personal self-stultification.
From The Promise of American Life by Herbert David Croly
The self-stultification of folly, however, was never more evident than it is in the current gabble of the oligarchs about a “Southern literature.”
From The Impending Crisis of the South How to Meet It by Hinton Rowan Helper
