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sober-minded, a.
[sober a. 14.]
1. Of a sober mind; temperate; self-controlled; rational; sensible. Also absol.
1534Tindale Titus ii. 4 To make the younge wemen sobremynded. Ibid. 6 Yonge men lykwyse exhorte that they be sobre mynded. 1642Milton Apol. Smect. Wks. 1851 III. 279 To teach and convince the rationall and sober-minded. 1766Fordyce Serm. Yng. Women (1767) I. iii. 110 Women well-bred and sober-minded at the same time. 1838Penny Cycl. XII. 306/1 The views of some of the modern and more sober-minded zoologists. 1876Bancroft Hist. U.S. III. xvi. 493 ‘We will die upon the place first,’ declared even the sober-minded.
2. Characterized by soberness of mind.
1815Scott Guy M. xlvii, Her words..were..too vehement and extravagant for sober-minded communication. 1870L'Estrange Life Miss Mitford I. v. 162 A purpose which, I think, was extremely soberminded and praiseworthy.
Hence sober-mindedness, sobriety of mind; prudent self-control, moderation.
1767Porteus Serm. bef. Univ. Cambr. 5 July 7 To induce habits of modesty, humility, temperance, frugality, obedience; in one word, Sober-mindedness. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. i. I. 137 A despotism, moderated only by..the sobermindedness [1858 sobriety], and the magnanimity of the despot. 1875Farrar Seekers after God ii. i. 198 Now sober-mindedness invites us. |