Bible Dictionaries
Sobriety

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(n.) Habitual freedom from enthusiasm, inordinate passion, or overheated imagination; calmness; coolness; gravity; seriousness; as, the sobriety of riper years.

(2):

(n.) Habitual soberness or temperance as to the use of spirituous liquors; as, a man of sobriety.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Sobriety'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​s/sobriety.html. 1828.