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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SOBERNESS

n. 1. Freedom from intoxication; temperance.
2. Gravity; seriousness.
3. Freedom from heat and passion; calmness; coolness. The soberness of Virgil might have shown him the difference.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

SOBERNESS

SOBERNESS So "ber *ness, n.

 

Defn: The quality or state of being sober.