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 Slason Thompson
A year or two ago I made a somewhat comprehensive European tour, and studied carefully the methods of dealing with inebriety.
From Habits that Handicap The Menace of Opium, Alcohol, and Tobacco, and the Remedy by Charles B. Towns
In two other cases nervous exhaustion from typhoid and typhus fever produced the same outcome in inebriety on the part of the father and mother.
From Degeneracy Its Causes, Signs and Results by Eugene S. Talbot
The inebriety of hope seized all the guests; as for me, I felt myself bathed in tears.
From Ten Years' Exile Memoirs of That Interesting Period of the Life of the Baroness De Stael-Holstein, Written by Herself, during the Years 1810, 1811, 1812, and 1813, and Now First Published from the Original Manuscript, by Her Son. by Auguste Louis Baron de Stael-Holstein
Was it, he wondered, the result, not of ordinary inebriety, but of the finer excesses of the soul?
From The Divine Fire by May Sinclair
