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Definition of Drunkennesses
1. drunkenness [n] - See also: drunkenness
Lexicographical Neighbors of Drunkennesses
Literary usage of Drunkennesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of the Apostolic Church by James Hastings, John Alexander Selbie, John Chisholm Lambert (1918)
"St. Paul may be opposing it to ' drunkennesses and revel- lings ' in the
corresponding list of vices, in which case the word would approach in meaning our ..."
2. Saint Paul's Epistle to the Galatians by Joseph Barber Lightfoot (1869)
"... seditions, heresies, envies, murders, drunkennesses, revellings, and such
like, v. ... 29, 30; in revellings and drunkennesses, in chamberings and ..."
3. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"... shall disburse some part of his unjust gains and so think all his grossest
impieties atoned for. So many perjuries, lusts, drunkennesses, quarrels, ..."
4. The Ante-Nicene Fathers: Translations of the Writings of the Fathers Down to by Alexander Roberts, James Donaldson, Arthur Cleveland Coxe, Ernest Cushing Richardson, Allan Menzies, Bernhard Pick (1903)
"... and drunkennesses; since it is, for the most part, for the sake of food, and
stomach, and appetite, that these solemnities are frequented. ..."
5. The Colloquies of Erasmus by Desiderius Erasmus, Edwin Johnson (1878)
"In both Sexes, there are many drunkennesses, Brawls, Fightings, Murders, Wars,
Rapines, and Adulteries. Eu. But we Men alone fight for our Country. ..."
6. Autobiography by John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle (1909)
"drunkennesses, for example, in ordinary cases, is not a fit subject for legislative
interference; but I should deem it perfectly legitimate that a person, ..."
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