SO'BERNESS, noun
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.
First occurrence in the Bible(KJV): Acts 26:25 But he said, I am not mad, most noble Festus; but speak forth the words of truth and soberness.
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