soberness
- n the state of being sober and not intoxicated by alcohol
- n a manner that is serious and solemn
- It comes, I am proud to believe, as the unanimous wish of one of the most deliberative conventions in American history, which weighed in the balance with soberness my too .
- But he said, I am not mad, most noble Festus; but speak forth the words of truth and soberness.
- His remarkable reverence for the office of the presidencyand perhaps a self-conscious regard for his place in history impelled him to set down the record with a soberness .