Debacchation
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Debacchation is a noun meaning (archaic) wild raving or debauchery, as if drunk.
Meaning
(archaic) wild raving or debauchery, as if drunk.
Example Sentences
Among those whose presence lent either a tone of dignity or debacchation to the far-famed occasion were: Beekman, Bixler, Boyd, Carver, Caemr, Collins […]
What confidence can such have of the suffrage of the saints, who defile their holiday with most foolish vanities, most impure pollutions, most wicked debacchations, and sacrilegious execrations.
In that convulsive, nervous disorder, called hysterics, the patients are affected with divers strange, inconsistent and contrary symptoms; […] are weak, sad, fearful, and suspicious ; grow stiff and immovable, and again flexible ; then falling into a fit of rage, quarrelling, and debacchation ; so strong as scarce to be held by three or four persons
Word Forms
- debacchations
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include debauch, dawbing, debouchement, decubation, draft, deray.
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