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I did not see Notre Dame, because Richard did not favour churches, or at least not Catholic ones, which he considered enervating Incense in particular he considered stultifying to the brain.† (source)
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Flat, gently rolling, it is stultifying.† (source)
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For all of our talk of expansion and pioneering spirit these past five centuries, we all know how stultified and static our human universe has become.† (source)
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Well, I tell you I am no longer that passive, weak creature that has spun evil from evil till the web is vast and thick while I remain its stultified victim.† (source)
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In the gallery the citizens stood and yawned, then wandered off into the less stultifying atmosphere of the hallway or gazed out the windows with awed expressions, watching the snow lash toward them in parabolas before it struck against the leaded panes.† (source)
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Although their poverty was traditional and stultifying, it was not unique.† (source)
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She fled the main street and the stultifying heat for the shade of narrow alleyways.† (source)
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What fired the imagination of my students one week bored and stultified them the next.† (source)
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She could do the most prosy things (though she was wise enough never to stultify herself with such "household arts" as knitting and embroidery), yet immediately afterward pick up a book and let her imagination rove as a formless cloud with the wind.† (source)
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I had never even heard his voice, had only Ellen's word for it that there was such a person) and quick not for the spying which you will doubtless call it, which during the past six months between that New Year's and that June gave substance to that shadow with a name emerging from Ellen's vain and garrulous folly, that shape without even a face yet because I had not even seen the photograph then, reflected in the secret and bemused gaze of a young girl: because I who had learned nothing of love, not even parents' love—that find dear constant violation of privacy, that stultification of the burgeoning and incorrigible I which is the meed and due of all mammalian meat, became not mistress, no† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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Not only that—it was close to 95 degrees and stultifyingly humid.† (source)
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He sat mutely in a ponderous, stultifying melancholy, waiting expectantly for Corporal Whitcomb to walk back in.† (source)
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An editorial in a Kansas newspaper screamed: On Saturday last Edmund G. Ross, United States Senator from Kansas, sold himself, and betrayed his constituents; stultified his own record, basely lied to his friends, shamefully violated his solemn pledge ...and to the utmost of his poor ability signed the death warrant of his country's liberty.† (source)
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And now shall we leave him in the hands of his enemies—shall we allow them to stifle and stultify his example?† (source)
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The slow discovery of the seventh sense, by which both men and women contrive to ride the waves of a world in which there is war, adultery, compromise, fear, stultification and hypocrisy—this discovery is not a matter for triumph.† (source)
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He had been afraid of wounding her all his life and voluntarily stuck to a stultifying discipline of monogamy, and now, after twenty years, he suddenly learned that it had all been superfluous and he had given up scores of women because of a misunderstanding!† (source)
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