self-stultification
- 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 Baudelaire, Charles
But he makes a very pretty show of convicting me of self-stultification in according to our purely theoretic satisfactions any place in the humanistic scheme.
From Essays in Radical Empiricism by James, William
Having committed herself thus, to wait for her daughter would have been the merest self-stultification.
From When Ghost Meets Ghost by De Morgan, William Frend
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 Croly, Herbert David
If long-continued peace is enervating, it is mere self-stultification to plead for conscription on the ground that it will still further prolong that enervating condition.
From The Great Illusion A Study of the Relation of Military Power to National Advantage by Angell, Norman
