[
UK
/sˈəʊbənəs/
]
NOUN
- the state of being sober and not intoxicated by alcohol
- a manner that is serious and solemn
How To Use soberness In A Sentence
- She liked him for a certain stern soberness that was his, and for his saving grace of humor. CHAPTER 8
- It fell in well enough with that love of emotional issues, that want of soberness and want of cogency, which is so characteristic of modern philosophers. The Life of Reason
- Yea, so settled and rooted was I in these things, that they became as a second nature to me; the which, as I have also with soberness considered since, did so offend the Lord, that even in my childhood he did scare and affrighten me with fearful dreams, and did terrify me with fearful visions. Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
- He might have been a Cumberland dalesman, such were his dignity, and self-possession, and English soberness of manner. The White Rose Road
