inebriety

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This condition differs from the condition called inebriety in the fact that it is a periodical expression of degeneracy whose form has been accidently determined, but which would exist even were its form changed.

From Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results by Talbot, Eugene S.

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

This gave the room the appearance of having been toyed with by an impatient cyclone, or an air of inebriety not in keeping with my poor but honest character.

From A Guest at the Ludlow and Other Stories by Edgar Wilson

Nouronihar, in the inebriety of youthful spirits, being used only to eunuchs of ordinary harems, and having never seen anything so eminently disgusting, was far more diverted than all the rest.

From Shorter Novels, Eighteenth Century The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia; The Castle of Otranto, a Gothic Story; Vathek, an Arabian Tale by Beckford, William

Poverty and crime have their origin in the corrupt heart, and their foundations are laid long and long before the first step is taken on the road to inebriety.

From Ten Nights in a Bar Room by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)