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insobriety

American  
[in-suh-brahy-i-tee] / ˌɪn səˈbraɪ ɪ ti /

noun

  1. lack of sobriety or moderation; intemperance; drunkenness.


insobriety British  
/ ˌɪnsəʊˈbraɪɪtɪ /

noun

  1. lack of sobriety; intemperance

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of insobriety

First recorded in 1605–15; in- 3 + sobriety


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The least motion of the affections and heart that way, is insobriety, and inordinate affections.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning

Ye seek it as if it were your portion and inheritance, surely this is insobriety.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning

Morland suspended for a time his habit of insobriety, discarded the social comrades of his laxer hours, and imagined himself reformed.

From Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art, (Vol. 2 of 3) by Shearjashub Spooner

On this subject the writer reproduces his opinion as expressed in ‘Oars and Sculls’ in 1873:— The tendency to ‘coppers’ in training is no proof of insobriety.

From Boating by W. B. Woodgate

“Great Britain,” says Lloyd George, “must be freed of ignorance, insobriety, penury, and the tyranny of man over man.”

From The So-called Human Race by Bert Leston Taylor

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