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Definition of Bibulousness
1. Noun. The marked tendency to consume alcoholic beverages in greater than normal quantities. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bibulousness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bibulousness
Literary usage of Bibulousness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology by Granville Stanley Hall (1904)
"College songs often abound in animal noises, made-up words, parodies and carica'tures
of religion, bibulousness, society, the negro and Chinaman, ..."
2. Social Control: A Survey of the Foundations of Order by Edward Alsworth. Ross (1901)
"... the voracity, bibulousness, and sensuality of the Germanic tribes would have
ruined them as soon as they had an economic surplus to dispose over. ..."
3. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1901)
"Equally characteristic of the time are the paragraphs recording disgusting feats
of gluttony, or of bibulousness, and the practice on the part of ..."
4. Social Studies by Richard Heber Newton (1886)
"To name in full the precious fruitage of Yankee inventiveness grafted upon the
Old World bibulousness— sherry-cobblers, mint-juleps, eye-openers, ..."
5. A History of Modern Liberty by James G. Mackinnon (1906)
"By his violence, his lack of discipline, his bibulousness, his inexperience in
tactics, his proneness to panic in the presence of the trained soldier, ..."
6. Theme-building by Charles Henshaw Ward (1920)
"Too many reporters are like he who spoke of "disesteem as a resultant of bibulousness."
28. But I guess you feel like I do—always worrying about the ..."
7. Common Diseases by Woods Hutchinson (1913)
"Trifling rewards were offered for cups above so many, or a generous rivalry in
bibulousness between Sister Sue and yourself was encouraged. ..."
8. My Brother and I: Selected Papers on Social Topics by Adolphus Julius Frederick Behrends, George Washington Cable, Richard Theodore Ely, Frederic William Farrar, Washington Gladden, Axel Gustafson, Hugh Price Hughes, Hinckley Gilbert Thomas Mitchell, Jacob August Riis (1895)
"Still, checks are now and then put on the bibulousness of the Czar's subjects,
as by increased cost of license, reduction of saloons, their subjection to ..."
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