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English
Etymology
From sober + -er (comparative suffix) or + -er (agent noun suffix).
Adjective
soberer
- comparative form of sober: more sober
Noun
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, 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, 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, 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, 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.”
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