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Stupor   /stˈupər/   Listen
noun
Stupor  n.  
1.
Great diminution or suspension of sensibility; suppression of sense or feeling; lethargy.
2.
Intellectual insensibility; moral stupidity; heedlessness or inattention to one's interests.





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"Stupor" Quotes from Famous Books



... children in a close apartment diminishes their ability to study, or to attend to instructions. And the person who habitually sleeps in a close room impairs mental energy in a similar degree. It is not unfrequently the case that depression of spirits and stupor of intellect are occasioned solely by inattention to ...
— The American Woman's Home • Catherine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe
... aroused from the stupor, which had been created by this strange scene, by the trampling of horses, and the sound of the bugles. A patrol was drawn to the spot by the report of the musket, and the alarm had been given to the corps. Without ...
— The Spy • James Fenimore Cooper
... after Mike had been there four or five days, both stood by Benedict's bed, and felt that a crisis was upon him. A great uneasiness had possessed him for some hours, and then he had sunk away into a stupor or a sleep, they could not ...
— Sevenoaks • J. G. Holland
... laid down on his couch and did not rise again. He lived several days but was most of the time in a stupor, or else delirious. He often asked for Mr. Harris, the missionary, and would afterward unconsciously mutter: "I do not hate him. He thinks I hate him, but I do not, I would not hurt him." The missionary was sent for repeatedly, but was from home at the time, ...
— An account of Sa-Go-Ye-Wat-Ha - Red Jacket and his people, 1750-1830 • John Niles Hubbard
... the chorus, but his voice failed him, his head sank down upon his breast, and, in a drunken stupor, he rolled from his seat, prone upon ...
— Jim Cummings • Frank Pinkerton


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