inebriety

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Indra supersedes Varuna.He is "voracious;" his "inebriety is most intense;" he "dances with delight in battle."

From Two Old Faiths Essays on the Religions of the Hindus and the Mohammedans by Mitchell, J. Murray (John Murray)

This gave the room the appearance of having been toyed with by an impatient cyclone, or an air of inebriety not in keeping with my poor but honest character.

From A Guest at the Ludlow and Other Stories by Edgar Wilson

He had drunk a good deal, but any inebriety from which he suffered was due much more to his own vivacity than to alcohol.

From Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)

However, 't is expedient to be wary: Indifference, certes, don't produce distress; And rash Enthusiasm in good society Were nothing but a moral inebriety.

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 6 by Coleridge, Ernest Hartley

There was, however, too much method in the next proceedings for it to be attributed wholly to emotional inebriety.

From Charles the Bold Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477 by Putnam, Ruth