debacchation
debacchation noun: wild raving or debauchery, as if drunk.
Noun
debacchation (usually uncountable, plural debacchations)
- wild raving or debauchery, as if drunk.
- What confidence can such have of the suffrage of the saints, who defile their holiday with most foolish vanities, most impure pollutions, most wicked debacchations, and sacrilegious execrations.1632, William Prynne, Histrio-Mastix, Part I, page 538, Act VI
- In that convulsive, nervous disorder, called hysterics, the patients are affected with divers strange, inconsistent and contrary symptoms; […] are weak, sad, fearful, and suspicious ; grow stiff and immovable, and again flexible ; then falling into a fit of rage, quarrelling, and debacchation ; so...1820, POLWHELE, The enthusiasm of Methodists and Papists considered by Bishop Lavington, page 249
Forms of debacchation
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Origin of debacchation
Latin debacchatio.
Questions about debacchation
- What does debacchation mean?
- Debacchation means wild raving or debauchery, as if drunk.
- What part of speech is debacchation?
- Debacchation is a noun.
- What is the plural of debacchation?
- The plural of debacchation is debacchations.
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