Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality or character of being stockish; stupidity; lack of sense or feeling.
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Examples
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They seemed to be practising a deliberate stockishness as if they were urging the flesh to resist its quickened pulses; but their solemnity had fled down to that place beneath the consciousness where the soul debates of its being, and there, as could be seen from the droop of the shoulders and the nervous contraction of the hand that was common to all, was raising doubt and fear.
The Judge Rebecca West 1937
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