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Definition of Sottishness
1. Noun. Stupefaction from drink.
Derivative terms: Sottish
2. Noun. Lack of restraint in use of alcohol.
Definition of Sottishness
1. Noun. The state or condition of being sottish. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sottishness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sottishness
Literary usage of Sottishness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Thomas Birch (1837)
"... which a mind once infected with Atheistical sottishness and disbelief will
not rather greedily swallow down, than admit a Deity, which to such is the ..."
2. The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and by Ralph Cudworth, Johann Lorenz Mosheim (1845)
"... there is but little hope, they being sunk into so great a degree of sottishness ;)
but for the confirmation of weak, staggering, and sceptical Theists. ..."
3. The Works of President Edwards by Jonathan Edwards, David Brainerd (1830)
"The unreasonableness and sottishness of the notion they had of God, ... And the
sottishness of their being insensible of God's all-seeing eye, ..."
4. The Works of President Edwards: With a Memoir of His Life by Jonathan Edwards, Sereno Edwards Dwight (1829)
"The unreasonableness and sottishness of the notion they had of God, ... And the
sottishness of their being insensible of God's all-seeing eye, ..."
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