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stultify

[stuhl-tuh-fahy] / ˈstʌl təˌfaɪ /


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Not for Gardiner the pietistically devotional approach that can stultify.

From New York Times • Mar. 31, 2022

Now, that can stultify a pope, in which neutrality becomes an end in itself.

From Salon • Mar. 21, 2015

But after a while Mr. Yeston’s tuneful feast begins to satiate and eventually stultify, and by the evening’s end it’s as if you’d eaten a whole buffet of pastry.

From New York Times • Jul. 22, 2011

The reason is the feeling in jazz that if you print something, if you write down the notes, you will stultify the music.

From The Guardian • Aug. 12, 2010

Thus always do the gods, in their severity, send only unforeseen evils to stultify our self-complacency.

From The Dramatic Works of G. E. Lessing Miss Sara Sampson, Philotas, Emilia Galotti, Nathan the Wise by Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim




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