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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"Inebriety" and such other very youthful things are not to be counted; but between "The Village" of 1783 and the "Posthumous Tales" of more than fifty years later, the difference is surprisingly small.
From Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 by Saintsbury, George
In 1775 was printed in that town a didactic satire of some four hundred lines in the Popian couplet, entitled Inebriety.
From English Men of Letters: Crabbe by Ainger, Alfred
"They both are here to bid you shun The other one's society, For Total Abstinence is one, The other Inebriety."
From Bab Ballads and Savoy Songs by Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck), Sir
Thus far there was nothing in what he had printed—in Inebriety or The Candidate—that could possibly have touched his heart or that of his readers.
From English Men of Letters: Crabbe by Ainger, Alfred
Read before the American Society for the Study of Alcohol and Drug Neuroses, Atlantic City, June 4, 1907, and published in the Jour. of Inebriety.
From How to Live Rules for Healthful Living Based on Modern Science by Fisher, Irving
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