soberer

soberer

1. comparative form of sober: more sober

soberer (plural soberers)

1. Something that makes a person sober.
   • 1831, James Athearn Jones, Haverhill; or, Memoirs of an Officer in the Army of Wolfe, London: T.&W. Boone, Volume 3, Chapter 7, p. 165,

     I was once very mischievous—I am not so now, age is a sad soberer of frolic fancies […]

   • 1901, R. B. Cunninghame Graham, A Vanished Arcadia: Being Some Account of the Jesuits in Paraguay, 1607 to 1767, London: Heinemann, Chapter 10, p. 278,

     […] business, as we know, is the great soberer of theorists, no matter on what side they theorize.

   • 1914, Robert W. Service, The Pretender: A Story of the Latin Quarter, New York: A.L. Burt, Book 2, Chapter 1, p. 103,

     […] love is an intoxicant, marriage the most effective of soberers.

   • 1923, Herbert Vivian, Myself Not Least, Being the Personal Reminiscences of X, New York: H. Holt, Chapter 8, p. 136,

     One evening I stayed with him very late to celebrate the birthday of his favorite actress, and for once he was slightly the worse for liquor. […] We drove off together, arranging that I should drop him at his flat and drive on to my house. When we reached Haymarket I suggested that we should stop at one of the all-night chemists and buy him one of the mixtures known as “soberers.”

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