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Definition

to dull or deprive of strength

or:

cause to appear foolish

Archaic legal usage: to stultify is to prove someone to be of unsound mind or to demonstrate someone's incompetence

And now shall we leave him in the hands of his enemies—shall we allow them to stifle and stultify his example?
Upton Sinclair -- The Jungle

Flat, gently rolling, it is stultifying.
Gary Paulsen -- Woodsong
What fired the imagination of my students one week bored and stultified them the next.
Pat Conroy -- The Water is Wide
Hurstwood saw her depart with some faint stirrings of shame, which were the expression of a manhood rapidly becoming stultified.
Theodore Dreiser -- Sister Carrie
Still he feared that stultifying thing which must have been hate.
Zane Grey -- The Rainbow Trail
Up to that moment Tom had been mostly stultified by emotion utterly new to him.
Zane Grey -- The Thundering Herd
In the pause which followed, Jude's eyes fixed themselves with a stultified expression on the opposite seat.
Thomas Hardy -- Jude the Obscure
A singular stultifying shock passed over her.
Zane Grey -- The Call of the Canyon
He sat mutely in a ponderous, stultifying melancholy, waiting expectantly for Corporal Whitcomb to walk back in.
Joseph Heller -- Catch-22
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.
Dan Simmons -- Hyperion
He was stultified, shocked, paralysed.
Thomas Hardy -- Tess of the d'Urbervilles
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.
Anne Rice -- Interview with the Vampire
"In his office!" said the man, with a stultified air.
Thomas Hardy -- The Mayor of Casterbridge
Although their poverty was traditional and stultifying, it was not unique.
Toni Morrison -- The Bluest Eye
What's that stultifying saying about chowder-headed people?
Herman Melville -- Moby Dick
The emotion of nonviolence was building in him until it became a prejudice like any other thought-stultifying prejudice.
John Steinbeck -- East of Eden
She fled the main street and the stultifying heat for the shade of narrow alleyways.
Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
They had just come from the stultifying workaday world of the ad agencies, money managers, and law firms in the entertainment district around Century Boulevard.
James Patterson -- Kiss the Girls
And the idea had obsessed him, softened him, had grown like a stultifying lichen upon his will, had shorn him of a wild, bold spirit she now strangely longed to see him feel.
Zane Grey -- The Light of Western Stars
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.
T. H. White -- The Once and Future King

(editor's note: 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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