Obs. [f. SOBER a. + MOOD sb.] Sober-mindedness; sobriety of demeanor.
1553. Grimalde, Cicero’s Offices, III. (1558), 165 b. Semelinesse, measurekeping, sobermode, stayednesse, and temperaunce.
1561. T. Hoby, trans. Castiglione’s Courtyer, ii. (1900), 112. Fearcenesse seemeth the greater whan it is accompanied with sobermoode.
1593. G. Harvey, Pierce’s Super., Wks. (Grosart), II. 295. He had … such a sober-moode, as might ripen the greenest witt.
