"faced with a class forever enveloped in a miasma of apathy and intellectual hebetude , the professor had little hope of kindling an interest in medieval European history",
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The leaden weight of an irremediable idleness descended upon General Feraud, who having no resources within himself sank into a state of awe-inspiring hebetude . \u2014 Ruth Walker, The Christian Science Monitor , 7 Sep. 2017"
],
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"circa 1621, in the meaning defined above":""
},
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"Late Latin hebetudo , from heb\u0113re to be dull; akin to Latin hebes dull":""
},
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"\u02c8he-b\u0259-\u02cct\u00fcd",
"-\u02ccty\u00fcd",
"\u02c8heb-\u0259-\u02cct(y)\u00fcd"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
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"languor",
"lassitude",
"lethargy",
"listlessness",
"stupor",
"torpor"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-044405",
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
]
},
"Heb":{
"type":[
"abbreviation"
],
"definitions":{
"Hebrew; Hebrews":[]
},
"pronounciation":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-162806"
},
"hebephrenia":{
"type":[
"adjective or noun",
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a form of schizophrenia characterized especially by incoherence, delusions lacking an underlying theme, and affect that is usually flat, inappropriate, or silly":[]
"His acceptance speech for the Best Actor prize was a more interesting performance than the hebephrenia Phoenix displayed in Joker. \u2014 Armond White, National Review , 5 Feb. 2020"
],
"history_and_etymology":{
"borrowed from German Hebephrenie \"type of mental disorder occurring at puberty,\" from Greek h\u0113b\u0113- (probably extracted from h\u0113b\u0113t\u1e17s \"having reached sexual maturity, adult,\" from h\u0113b\u0113-, variant stem of h\u0113b\u00e1\u014d, h\u0113b\u00e2n \"to reach puberty, be in the prime of youth\" \u2014derivative of h\u1e17b\u0113 \"youth, vigor of youth, sexual maturity\"\u2014 + -t\u0113s, adjective suffix) + phren-, phr\u1e17n \"midriff, seat of the passions, mind, wits\" + German -ie -ia entry 1 ; Greek h\u1e17b\u0113 perhaps going back to Indo-European *(H)i\u032f\u0113g w -eh 2 , whence also Lithuanian j\u0117g\u00e0 \"strength, force,\" Latvian j\u0119\u0304ga \"power, sense\" \u2014 more at frenetic":""
},
"first_known_use":{
"1883, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-183112"
},
"Hebei":{
"type":[
"geographical name"
],
"definitions":{
"province of northeastern China surrounding but not including the municipality of Beijing; capital Shijiazhuang area 77,079 square miles (199,635 square kilometers), population 71,854,210":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u0259-\u02c8b\u0101"
],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"history_and_etymology":{},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-185000"
},
"Hebe":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": jew":[],
": the Greek goddess of youth and a cupbearer to the gods":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8h\u0113-b\u0113",
"\u02c8h\u0113b"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"short for Hebrew":"Noun",
"Latin, from Greek H\u0113b\u0113":"Noun"
},
"first_known_use":{
"1926, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
"1561, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-201333"
},
"hebdomader":{
"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": a member of a Scottish university formerly appointed for the week to superintend student discipline":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"-d\u0259(r)"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"alteration of hebdomadary entry 1":""
},
"first_known_use":{},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220709-110837"
},
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"type":[
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": jew":[],
": the Greek goddess of youth and a cupbearer to the gods":[]
