Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Habitual drunkenness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Addiction to drink; habitual drunkenness.
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- noun
Drunkenness orintoxication fromalcohol , especially as ahabitual state .
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Examples
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On alcohol, Thoreau wrote: “I would fain keep sober always … I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man; wine is not so noble a liquor … Of all ebriosity, who does not prefer to be intoxicated by the air he breathes?”
henry david thoreau | happy birthday, henry! « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008
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On alcohol, Thoreau wrote: “I would fain keep sober always … I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man; wine is not so noble a liquor … Of all ebriosity, who does not prefer to be intoxicated by the air he breathes?”
July « 2008 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008
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Of all ebriosity, who does not prefer to be intoxicated by the air he breathes?
Walden 2004
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From the many stories told of Thurlow and ebriosity, one may be here taken and brought under the reader's notice -- not because it has wit or humor to recommend it, but because it presents the Chancellor in company with another port-loving lawyer, William Pitt, from whose fame, by-the-by, Lord
A Book About Lawyers John Cordy Jeaffreson 1866
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Of all ebriosity, who does not prefer to be intoxicated by the air he breathes?
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Of all ebriosity, who does not prefer to be intoxicated by the air he breathes?
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Of all ebriosity, who does not prefer to be intoxicated by the air he breathes?
Walden Henry David Thoreau 1839
qms commented on the word ebriosity
The worst are consumed with ferocity;
Protections alarm by their paucity.
It's tempting to yield-
Abandon the field-
And sink into deep ebriosity.
August 19, 2017