soberer
English edit
Etymology edit
From sober + -er (comparative suffix) or + -er (agent noun suffix).
Adjective edit
soberer
- comparative form of sober: more sober
Noun edit
soberer (plural soberers)
- Something that makes a person sober.
- 1831, James Athearn Jones, chapter 7, in Haverhill; or, Memoirs of an Officer in the Army of Wolfe[1], volume 3, London: T.&W. Boone, page 165:
- I was once very mischievous—I am not so now, age is a sad soberer of frolic fancies […]
- 1901, R. B. Cunninghame Graham, chapter 10, in A Vanished Arcadia: Being Some Account of the Jesuits in Paraguay, 1607 to 1767[2], London: Heinemann, page 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[3], New York: A.L. Burt, Book 2, Chapter 1, p. 103:
- […] love is an intoxicant, marriage the most effective of soberers.
- 1923, Herbert Vivian, chapter 8, in Myself Not Least, Being the Personal Reminiscences of X[4], New York: H. Holt, page 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.”