inebriety
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of inebriety
1780–90; in- 2 + obsolete ebriety < Latin ēbrietās, equivalent to ēbri ( us ) drunk + -etās, variant of -itās -ity
Example Sentences
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Besides being equal to Mrs. Campbell's best work in the past, it is strikingly original in presenting the ethics of the body as imperiously claiming recognition in the radical cure of inebriety.
From The Easiest Way in Housekeeping and Cooking Adapted to Domestic Use or Study in Classes by Campbell, Helen
However, 't is expedient to be wary: Indifference, certes, don't produce distress; And rash Enthusiasm in good society Were nothing but a moral inebriety.
From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley
A year or two ago I made a somewhat comprehensive European tour, and studied carefully the methods of dealing with inebriety.
From Habits that Handicap The Menace of Opium, Alcohol, and Tobacco, and the Remedy by Towns, Charles B.
Field indignantly repelled the suggestion that Nye's indiscretion was due to inebriety, but traced it to his bad health.
From Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 2 by Thompson, Slason
Was it, he wondered, the result, not of ordinary inebriety, but of the finer excesses of the soul?
From The Divine Fire by Sinclair, May
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