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Meaning of ebriety | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
/ɪˈbɹaɪ.ɪt.i/

Definitions

  1. The state of intoxication, drunkenness.
    uncountable
  2. An instance of being drunk.
    countable, obsolete

Examples

“God's touches, the wounds of his spear, references to ebriety and to nuptial union have to figure in the phraseology by which [a mystical state] is shadowed forth.”
“It had been as the murmurous consecration to follow the murmurous welcome; and even if it were but part of Aunt Maud's own spiritual ebriety—for the dear woman, one could see, was spiritually "keeping" the day—it served to Milly, then and afterwards, as a high-water mark of the imagination.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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