Meaning of drunkedness | Babel Free

Definitions

The state of being drunk; drunkenness.

archaic, rare, uncountable

Examples

“Therefore Christ commands: Look well to yourselves, least perhaps your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkedness. And Saint Paul dehorting us from drunkedness says: Be not drunk with wine wherein is riotousness. Drunkards shall not possess the Kingdom of God.”

“In the most familiar types of drunkedness, the manifestations unmistakably belong to the cyclothymic complexes. Less commonly are seen types of so-called pathological drunkedness; delusional type, convulsive type, etc.”

“The Quakers as early as 1705, cautioned against "Sippling and Tippling;" drunkedness was always considered by the Quakers as a sin, but they made a wide distinction between drinking and drunkedness ...”

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