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noun

Drunkenness n.

The state of being drunken with, or as with, alcoholic liquor; intoxication; inebriety; used of the casual state or the habit. "The Lacedemonians trained up their children to hate drunkenness by bringing a drunken man into their company."

Disorder of the faculties, resembling intoxication by liquors; inflammation; frenzy; rage. "Passion is the drunkenness of the mind."

Synonyms: Intoxication; inebriation; inebriety. Drunkenness, Intoxication, Inebriation. Drunkenness refers more to the habit; intoxication and inebriation, to specific acts. The first two words are extensively used in a figurative sense; a person is intoxicated with success, and is drunk with joy. "This plan of empire was not taken up in the first intoxication of unexpected success."

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"Drunkenness" Quotes from Famous Books

... Megaris where Perion lay fettered in the Castle of San' Alessandro, then a new building. Perion's trial, condemnation, and so on, had consumed the better part of an hour, on account of the drunkenness of one of the Inquisitors, who had vexatiously impeded these formalities by singing love-songs; but in the end it had been salutarily arranged that the Comte de la Foret be torn apart by four horses upon the St. ...

— Domnei • James Branch Cabell et al

... The dreadful vice of drunkenness, of which I shall have occasion to speak hereafter, is nowhere displayed in more revolting colours, or occurs more frequently, than in the bush; nor is it exhibited by the lower classes in so shameless a manner as by the gentlemen settlers, from whom a better example ...

— Life in the Clearings versus the Bush • Susanna Moodie

... stand half an hour without law!! The very honest would turn thieves if not protected, and there would be a go. Besides, this great crime is like a trunk railway, other little crimes run into it and out of it; lies buzz about it like these Australian flies—drat you! Drunkenness precedes and follows it, and perjury rushes ...

— It Is Never Too Late to Mend • Charles Reade

... places of destination, and the taverns are crowded; but there is no drunkenness or brawling, for the class of men who commit the enormity of making Sunday excursions, take their families with them: and this in itself would be a check upon them, even if they were inclined to dissipation, which they really are ...

— Sunday Under Three Heads • Charles Dickens

... mankind like devastating waves. Among these is the "Black Death," the plague which in the year 1350 carried off twenty-five millions of the people of Europe. Men thought that it was a divine punishment. Some repented and did penance; others gave themselves up to drunkenness and other excesses. They had then no notion of the deadly bacteria, and of the serum which renders the blood immune from ...

— From Pole to Pole - A Book for Young People • Sven Anders Hedin

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