temulence
nounEtymology Learned borrowing from Latin tēmulentia.
1
Drunkenness; intoxication.
- But the postcard was not invented in England until 1870, so Miss Barrett had no way of curbing her temulence to a dram of postcard-size.1933, Osbert Burdett, The Brownings, Constable & Co. Ltd., page 44:
- Related terms
- temulent, temulentive