inebriety

Example Sentences

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It is foolish to question the motives of men who, without thought of personal gain, are trying to remedy the evils of inebriety.

From Civics and Health by Allen, William H.

There was, however, too much method in the next proceedings for it to be attributed wholly to emotional inebriety.

From Charles the Bold Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477 by Putnam, Ruth

The inebriety of hope seized all the guests; as for me, I felt myself bathed in tears.

From Ten Years' Exile Memoirs of That Interesting Period of the Life of the Baroness De Stael-Holstein, Written by Herself, during the Years 1810, 1811, 1812, and 1813, and Now First Published from the Original Manuscript, by Her Son. by Stael-Holstein, Auguste Louis Baron de

Thus in the allegorical Vishnuite drama called Prabodhacandrodaya and written at Kalanjar near the end of the eleventh century Buddhists and Jains are represented as succumbing to the temptations of inebriety and voluptuousness.

From Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 by Eliot, Charles, Sir

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.