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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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
But to such a piece of self-stultification the clear-sighted Dutchmen could by no persuasion be brought to consent.
From The Unseen World and Other Essays by John Fiske
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
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 Norman Angell
For combination of any kind involves contradiction in terms; it involves a self-stultification on the part of one or more things, more or less complete in both of them.
From The Note-Books of Samuel Butler by Samuel Butler
