stultification

n.愚弄；使变无效

One of the reasons of stultification in prayer is that there is no imagination, no power of putting ourselves deliberately before God. 觉得祷告受阻的原因之一就是缺乏想象力，也没有力量把我们自己慎重地放在神面前。

He learned the lesson early in life that scientific conformity means intellectual stultification 他早在青年时期就懂得，科学上的因循守旧只能意味治学上的愚蠢。