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drunkardliness

drunkardliness noun: the quality of being drunkardly.

Noun

drunkardliness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being drunkardly.
    • A drunkard (if he is a terminologically pure drunkard—again, realities are collapsed into nominalities) necessarily takes the drink because taking the drink is necessarily implied, even if it is not compelled, by the fact of drunkardliness.1989, Allen C. Guelzo, “Bellamy and Hopkins: The Wisdom of God in the Permission of Sin”, in Edwards on the Will: A Century of American Theological Debate, Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University...
    • Justly apt shrinkage and drunkardliness2001, Dorothy Trujillo Lusk, Ogress Oblige, Krupskaya, →ISBN, page 26

Origin of drunkardliness

From drunkardly + -ness.

Questions about drunkardliness

What does drunkardliness mean?
Drunkardliness means the quality of being drunkardly.
What part of speech is drunkardliness?
Drunkardliness is a noun.

Words near drunkardliness in the dictionary

  1. drunkard's noodles
  2. drunkard's walk
  3. drunkard's walks
  4. drunkardess
  5. drunkardesses
  6. drunkardliness
  7. drunkardly
  8. drunkardness
  9. drunkardry
  10. drunkards
  11. drunke

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