Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for STU-PE-FAC'TION
STU-PE-FAC'TION, n. [L. stupefacio; stupeo, whence stupidus, and facio. See Stop.]
- The act of rendering stupid.
- A stupid or senseless state; insensibility; dullness; torpor; stupidity. Resistance of the dictates of conscience brings a hardness and stupefaction upon it. – South.
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