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drunkardness

drunkardness noun: the quality of being a drunkard.

Noun

drunkardness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being a drunkard.
    • Breathen^([sic – meaning Brethren]) John Brunk Juner and Wilson Bomer gave the Church satisfaction for being over taken^([sic]) in drunkardness1814 December 24, Shadrach Duncan, “December the fourth Saterday^([sic]) 1814”, in [Hardin County: South Fork Meeting House Rules (2)] (Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection; Kentucky: Counties &...
    • I have toiled through twenty years more—I have lived a life of the most appalling suffering and misery—and now whilst I totter on the brink of eternity, I am still a drunkard! If ever a human being has suffered for the crime of drunkardness, that being am I.1832 July 7, “Confession of a Convict”, in Boston Masonic Mirror, volume IV, number 2, Boston, Mass.: Moore & Sevey, →ISSN, →OCLC, page [4], column 3
    Synonyms:
    drunkardry

Examples of drunkardness in a sentence

  • A large number of arrests for drunkardness and other disorder,^([sic]) were made during the Christmas week, but only in communities where whisky was sold.1887 January 8, “South Washington”, in W[illiam] Calvin Chase, editor, The Washington Bee, volume V, number 32, Washington, D.C., →ISSN...
  • This was a time of wild revelry, drunkardness, orgies, and merrymaking.2011, Richard ‘Bingy’ Brown, chapter 11, in Living the Dream, [Bloomington, Ind.]: Xlibris, →ISBN, page 232:

Synonyms of drunkardness

Origin of drunkardness

From drunkard + -ness.

Questions about drunkardness

What does drunkardness mean?
Drunkardness means the quality of being a drunkard.
How do you use drunkardness in a sentence?
A large number of arrests for drunkardness and other disorder,^([sic]) were made during the Christmas week, but only in communities where whisky was sold.
What part of speech is drunkardness?
Drunkardness is a noun.

Words near drunkardness in the dictionary

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

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