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English
Etymology
From drunkardly + -ness.
Noun
drunkardliness (uncountable)
- The quality of being drunkardly.
1989, Allen C. Guelzo, “Bellamy and Hopkins: The Wisdom of God in the Permission of Sin”, in Edwards on the Will: A Century of American Theological Debate, Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, →ISBN, page 100:A drunkard (if he is a terminologically pure drunkard—again, realities are collapsed into nominalities) necessarily takes the drink because taking the drink is necessarily implied, even if it is not compelled, by the fact of drunkardliness.
2001, Dorothy Trujillo Lusk, Ogress Oblige, Krupskaya, →ISBN, page 26:Justly apt shrinkage and drunkardliness
2001 May 22, Mike Dahmus, “GENIUS resume online!”, in alt.religion.kibology (Usenet):>A nice bout of alcoholism will clear that right up for you. Booze makes / >you popular and heals all wounds! / This sounds like awfully good advice, but I'm still frightened, seeing as how I'm a neophyte in the ways of drunkardliness. Do you have any suggestions on ways to gently ease myself into the alcoholic lifestyle?
2003 June 3, John Manning, “'latter-day saints' have indeed come to the latter day."”, in alt.religion.mormon (Usenet):'Cussing' is bad? But early LDS Church intimidation, murder, castration, theft, leasing brothels for 50 years in Salt Lake City, drunkardliness, Smith marrying other men's wives behind their backs, racism, blood atonement, cash to get to heaven, terrorism with the Expositor, Mountain Meadows Massacre, etc. - is good Christian behavior?
2014, “Peoples and Fatherlands”, in Adrian Del Caro, transl., Beyond Good and Evil / On the Genealogy of Morality (The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche; volume 8), Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, →ISBN, section “Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future”, page 152:[…]—his Manfred music is a mistake and a misunderstanding to the point of being an injustice—Schumann with his taste, that was at bottom a small taste (namely a dangerous tendency, doubly so among Germans, toward quiet lyricism and drunkardliness of feeling), always off to one side, shyly withdrawing and retreating, a noble sissy who wallowed in all kinds of anonymous happiness and pain, a kind of girl and noli me tangere from the start: […]