Meaning of drunkardliness | Babel Free

Definitions

The quality of being drunkardly.

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Examples

“A drunkard (if he is a terminologically pure drunkard—again, realities are collapsed into nominalities) necessarily takes the drink because taking the drink is necessarily implied, even if it is not compelled, by the fact of drunkardliness.”

“Justly apt shrinkage and drunkardliness”

“>A nice bout of alcoholism will clear that right up for you. Booze makes / >you popular and heals all wounds! / This sounds like awfully good advice, but I'm still frightened, seeing as how I'm a neophyte in the ways of drunkardliness. Do you have any suggestions on ways to gently ease myself into the alcoholic lifestyle?”

“'Cussing' is bad? But early LDS Church intimidation, murder, castration, theft, leasing brothels for 50 years in Salt Lake City, drunkardliness, Smith marrying other men's wives behind their backs, racism, blood atonement, cash to get to heaven, terrorism with the Expositor, Mountain Meadows Massacre, etc. - is good Christian behavior?”

“[…]—his Manfred music is a mistake and a misunderstanding to the point of being an injustice—Schumann with his taste, that was at bottom a small taste (namely a dangerous tendency, doubly so among Germans, toward quiet lyricism and drunkardliness of feeling), always off to one side, shyly withdrawing and retreating, a noble sissy who wallowed in all kinds of anonymous happiness and pain, a kind of girl and noli me tangere from the start:[…]”

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