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Sottishness

noun
1.
Stupefaction from drink.
2.
Lack of restraint in use of alcohol.





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"Sottishness" Quotes from Famous Books



... admonitory sermon might well be preached to us dissolute Germans, in warning for our excesses and drunkenness. But where would be forthcoming a sermon forcible enough to restrain the shameful sottishness and the drink devil among us? The evil of overindulgence has, alas, swept in upon us like a torrent, overwhelming as a flood all classes. It daily spreads further and further throughout the nation, embracing every station from the lowest ...
— Epistle Sermons, Vol. II - Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost • Martin Luther


Words linked to "Sottishness" :   unrestraint, sottish, inebriation, drunkenness, tipsiness, inebriety, intoxication, insobriety


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