torpidnesspitude

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

TOR'PIDNESS'PITUDE, noun The state of being torpid; numbness. Torpidness may amount to total insensibility or loss of sensation. 1. Dullness; inactivity; sluggishness; stupidity.
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