inebriety

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Field indignantly repelled the suggestion that Nye's indiscretion was due to inebriety, but traced it to his bad health.

From Eugene Field, a Study in Heredity and Contradictions — Volume 2 by Thompson, Slason

Was it, he wondered, the result, not of ordinary inebriety, but of the finer excesses of the soul?

From The Divine Fire by Sinclair, May

Gluttony is more common than inebriety and is responsible for more ills.

From Maintaining Health Formerly Health and Efficiency by Alsaker, R. L.

It took possession of him too thoroughly, he said, with a plausible air, to allow of his affecting inebriety after holding an empty goblet to his lips, or swallowing mere toast-and-water or small beer.

From A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character by Cook, Dutton

Besides being equal to Mrs. Campbell's best work in the past, it is strikingly original in presenting the ethics of the body as imperiously claiming recognition in the radical cure of inebriety.

From The Easiest Way in Housekeeping and Cooking Adapted to Domestic Use or Study in Classes by Campbell, Helen