drunkedness

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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