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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of soberize.

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Examples

  • Once or twice (to say nothing of her triumph over me on Sunday night) I was prevailed upon to fluster myself, with an intention to make some advances, which, if obliged to recede, I might lay upon raised spirits: but the instant I beheld her, I was soberized into awe and reverence: and the majesty of her even visible purity first damped, and then extinguished, my double flame.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • Thus soberized, she gave me a fairly consecutive account of what had happened.

    My New Curate P.A. Sheehan

  • Naturally of a cheerful and ardent disposition, his mood now became soberized and sedate.

    Eugene Aram — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • Naturally of a cheerful and ardent disposition, his mood now became soberized and sedate.

    Eugene Aram — Volume 01 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

  • In her dress she is greatly soberized, without being reminded of the necessity of any alteration.

    Vicissitudes in Genteel Life 1794

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    We Blog A Lot 2009

  • "She gazed at me with profound pity, and with such an air of sincerity that, for the moment, I thought she had been soberized by astonishment.

    The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume VIII. Guy de Maupassant 1871

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  • Once or twice... I was prevailed upon to fluster myself, with an intention to make some advances, which, if obliged to recede, I might lay upon raised spirits: but the instant I beheld her, I was soberized into awe and reverence...

    Lovelace to Belford, Clarissa by Samuel Richardson

    December 14, 2007