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In literature, "inebriated" is deployed both in its literal sense of drunkenness and as a metaphor for a state of overwhelming passion or disordered emotion. Authors use it to depict characters whose judgment is impaired by alcohol, as when a man’s wild actions and humorous mishaps highlight social blunders or tragic follies [1], [2]. In other instances, the term extends beyond physical intoxication to describe emotional excess or spiritual fervor—for example, a heart enraptured by love or a soul steeped in sorrow might be described as inebriated, conveying a sense of being overwhelmed by internal forces [3], [4]. Even classical texts harness the word to evoke striking, larger-than-life imagery or to imbue sacred narratives with human vulnerability [5], [6].
  1. He had met Villiers at his hotel, when both of them being inebriated they swore eternal friendship.
    — from Madame Midas by Fergus Hume
  2. I heard high words exchanged between him and his already half-inebriated host as I departed, leading away my bewildered and disconcerted boy.
    — from The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
  3. I am beyond measure inebriated with grief, and my rash words flow from my mouth like the wind of a tempest.
    — from Isabella Orsini: A Historical Novel of the Fifteenth Century by Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi
  4. I was inebriated with love, and thinking only of you, I saw nothing but you.”
    — from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova
  5. The soul that blesseth, shall be made fat: and he that inebriateth, shall be inebriated also himself.
    — from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete
  6. Come, let us be inebriated with the breasts, and let us enjoy the desired embraces, till the day appear.
    — from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete

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