inebriety

Example Sentences

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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.

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

In twenty cases various neurosal disorders had been prominent in the family and its branches, of which neuralgia, chorea, hysteria, eccentricity, mania, epilepsy and inebriety, were most common.

From Grappling with the Monster The Curse and the Cure of Strong Drink by Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)

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 Don Juan by Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron

He had drunk a good deal, but any inebriety from which he suffered was due much more to his own vivacity than to alcohol.

From Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)